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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCILL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE"

EXAMINATION

CARIBBEAN HISTORY

Paper 01 General Proficiency

1 hour 15 minutes

( 31 MAY 2022 (a.m.)

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This test consists of 60 items. You will haveI hour and I5 minutes to answer them.

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the same letter as the answer you have chosen.

Sample Item
Which of the following was used by early navigators
to determine the position of the ship in relation to the stars?
Sample Answer
A) A map
(B) A compass
(C) A lodestone
D) An astrolabe

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 Which of the tollow ing statements is true Which of the following BEST describes
of
BOTH Jamaica and Cuba at the time of the religious practices of the Kalinagos and
Columbus arival in the Caribbean? Tainos?

A) They were not inhabited. (A) Nature worship and animal sacritice
B) They were inhabited by Tainos. rotective magic and animal
B)
(C) They wereinhabited by Mayas. sacrificee
Nature worship and ancestor
(D) They were inhabited by Kalmagos. (C)
Worship
(D) Long periods of fasting and

ancestor worship

ltems reters to the following map showing part of the Caribbean and South America.

1000 km

ATLANTIC OCEAN

. The area where the Kalinagos lived before they migrated to the Caribbean islands is labelled

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

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 The uler ot a May an city state was called 8, l'he Dutch may be called the 'foster
the fathers' of Freneh and British settlers in
the Caribbean in the l600s because they
A)
acque
(B) Ouboutou (A) converted the settlers to the
AUafiencia Totestant laith

(D) Halach \ inie (B) kept the settlers supplied with

Cssential goods
(C)shared their skills in tobacco
The Maya obtained their fovd MAINLY by growing with the settlers
(D) conquered the indigenous people
A) ishing to make settlement safe
(B) trading
(C) hunting
D) Which TWO European countries were
taming
chiet rivals in the setting up of colonies in
the Americas in the early 16th century?
The MAIN reason why the English
attempted to break the spanish monopoly (A) Portugal and Spain
in the New World was to England and Spain
(B)
(C)Englandand France
(A) obtain new trade routes to the East (D) France and Portugal
(B) obtain a share of the wealth of the
New World
(C)supply captive Africans to the 10. Which of the following strategies was
Spanish colonies
(D)gain a base trom which to attack
used to
weaken the Spanish monopoly in
the Caribbean up to 1763?
the native peopies
(A) Espionage
(B) Settlement
In which century were the English MOST
successtul in establishing setlements in
(C)Iporting mercenaries
(D)Suing in European courts
the Caribbean?

(A) Fourteenth 11. Which of the following resulted from the

B) Fifteenth changeover trom tobacco to sugar cane
SIxteenth cultivation in the Caribbean?
(D) Seventeenth
I. The black population increased.
II. The number of land owners
declined.
The mulatto population declined.

(A) I and II only

(B) T and Ill only
(C) Il and IIl only
(D) Il and IIl

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 12. Legislation passed Which of the following statements about
in British colonies to 15.
egulate the ratio of the black the population of Barbados by the endof
to the whites
population
were called the the 1600s is true?

(A) Slave Laws (A) There were more whites than

(B) Navigation Acts blacks.
(C) Dehciency Laws (B) Blacks were lar greater in number
(D) Amelioration Proposals than whites.
(C) Coloureds were far greater in
number than whites.
13. Which of the
following occurred in D) There were equal numbers of
Afnca as a result of the trade in
enslaved coloureds and blacks.
Aficans?

(A) Reduction of warfare in West 16. Which of the following conditions did
Africa
NOT result from the Haitian Revolution?
(B)
Uniting of Africa under
European
rule
(C) (A) The mulattoes were wiped out.
Growth of the West African
(B) The pattern of land
ownership
population
(D) Increased importation of European changed.
C)The country gaincd independence
from France.
(D) The economy of the island was
14. The almost destroyed.
large importation of enslaved Afri-
cans into theCaribbean during the 1600s
and 1700s was due MAINLY to
Toussaint L'Ouverture contributed to the
(A) SuCcess of the Haitian
the heavy debts owed by estate
Revolution MAINLY
by
owners
(B)improved technology being used (A)
on the estates setting up a
system of fortification
C) the (B) developing
expansion and
profitability of
a
revolutionary
the sugar industry
(C)
deology
(D) promotion of the slave trade by the dividing the country between
Royal African Company blacks and mulattoes
(D) organizing the
enslaved into a
tormidable hghting 1orce

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18. The thve colournds of St Domingue revolted 22. Which of the following duties was NOT
in 1790 bevause they performed bystipendury magistrates?
A)supported the Ring of
France A) Visiting the estates in their district
(B) wished to assist the enslaved (3) Sending reports to colonial offices
Africans (C)Teaching the apprentices new
(C) were dissattsfiecd with their status
in socicty (D)
trades
Hearing complaints in the Saturday
(D) wanted to
prevent the enslaved courts
Africans trom revolting

23. The Registry Bill was intended to

19. Which of the following causes is common
to the Barbados Rebellion of 1816 and the (A) punish slave masters
Jamaican Rebellion of 1831? (B) punish enslaved persons
(C) record the persons born out of

(A) did not provide the wedlock

Planters
enslaved Africans with sutficient (D) prevent the illegal sale of enslaved
provisions. persons
(B) Missionaries encouraged the
enslaved Africans to fight for
their freedom. 24. Which of the following describes how
(C) Enslaved Africans felt that their MOST planters and colonial assemblies
owners should pay them for their reacted to amelioration?
hard work.
(D) Enslaved Africans thought that their (A) They wilingly adopted the
freedom was being withheld by proposals for improvements.
the planters. (B) They completely rejected or largely
ignored the proposals.
(C) hey saw the proposals
20. Which slave revolt forced the British
as a
way
to get thhe enslaved to produce
government to give serious consideration more.
to the Emancipation Proposal? (D) hey saw the proposals as a good
way to prepare the enslaved for
(A) Bussa Revolt Treedom.

(B) Berbice Revol

(C) Haitian Revolution
(D) Christmas Rebellion 25. Which of the following did the ameliora-
tion measures
of 1823 propose'?
21. The arguments that the British humani- (A) Enslaved families should be
tarians used against slavery in the 1800s divided.
Were MAINLY (B) Enslaved persons should not be
sold.
(A) egal (C) No enslaved woman should be
B) moral logged.
(C) political (D) That children should not be allowed
(1D) cconom IC to work on estates.

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 ndentured workers Irom Mudeira brought
otthe following were stipulations 29. to the
cuiure British
ofthe Eimancipation Act of 1833 clements o
Caribbean. From which of the tollowingg
Atricans the British
rgaring enslavet in
cultures were these elements drawn?
anbbean
A) A chanee to work for (A) Indian
wages
Compensation for past labour Africar
Social equality with the whites (C) Chinese
Supervision by stipendiary (D) Portugues
magistrates
Which of the following factors BEST
30.
did not returm home,
Large-scale immigration to Trinidad and explains why Indians
to India, atter the period o1 indenureshnip
between 1838 and 1870 led to
Guy ana was Over?
I cultural diversity in those territories
(A) Some of them accepted the offers
II. racial conficts among the ethnic
of grants of money or land.
groups
Bounties were oftered to induce
I11. economic development in both (B)
c r r t o r1es
them to renew their contracts.
(C) Many of them did not like the

(A) I only offers.

Planters did not want them to return
(B) i and il only D)
to tne lOW standiara of ite in
Il and Ill only
(D) 1. Il and III India.

8. Which of the following did NOT result Which of the following groups helped in
the lormation of free villages in Jamaica?
from the immigration
labourers to the
of indentured
Caribbean alter

cmancipation? A) Planters
B) Missionaries
(A) The expansion of
sugar production (C) Local assemblies
in Barbados (D)Stupendary magistriales
The expansion of rice cultivation
(B)
inGuyana
he introduction of new religions
(C)
to Guyana
The introduction of a variety of
(D)
ethnic groups in Irinidad

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 Ltms 2 refer to the following 35. Which of the following was NOT a result

infomation. of the development of the peasantry in the

British Caribbean after 1838?
William Knibb foresaw that planters
(A) Diversification of the economy
try to force extra work from their
woukd
free labourers by increasing rents on homes (B) Legal recognition of the practice of
obeah
the estate.
Greater expansion of non-
(C)
To which territory Is the statement contormist churches
(D) A growing sense of independence
referring?
among freed Africans

A) Jamarca
(B)
Guy ana
Trinidad 36. "The
adherence of the United States
Monroe Doctrine may force
to the
the United
D) Barbados
States, however reluctantly, in cases
o
to the exercise
wrong doing or impotence,
3. Which of the following BEST describes of thhe intermational police force.
the response of free abourers in the
The above statement is assoCiated witlh
Caribbean?
President

(A) Riots against the

planters
(B) Payment of the increased A) Ulysses S. Grant
rent
(C) Refusal to leave the plantation (B) Woodrow Wilson
(D) Establishing homes off ihe Theodore Roosevelt
plantation (D) lohn Fitzgerald Kennedy

What action did William Knibb take to 37. Which of the following Caribbean territories
was NOT occupied by the United
assist freed Africans in acquiring land?
military forces in the early 1900s?
States
A ers
Warn the labourers. A) Cuba
B)
(C) Establish free illages. (B) Haiti
the (C) Jamaica
(D) Report to
governor
(D) Dominican Republic

38. Towhichevent is the granting of protectorate

slatus to Puerto Rico in l898 by the United
States connected?

(A) The Latin American War

B) The Spanish-American War
(C) The Cuban War of Independence
(D) The Puerto Rican War of lndepend-
ence

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 9. By which agreement did the USA 43.
Which of the following is true about the
make Cuba ol West Indian workers in
"gravitate toward the North agitations the
American Union"? 1930s?

\) The Platt Amendment (A) They resulted in stronger labour

(B) The Teller Amendment unions.
C) The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty They were supported by foreign
(B)
D) The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
agitators.
(C) They were reacting to the Wood
Commission.
0. Which of the
following wasintended (D) They sought improved conditions
MAINLY to prevent further exNtension of for enslaved people.
European inffuence in the "New World"?

(A) The Monroe Doctrine

44. Marcus Garvey is BEST remembered for
B) The Platt Amendment
his
() The Dollar Diplomacy
D) The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
(A) participation in the 1937 riots
(B) teachings on black nationalism
(C) from the United States
41. The focus of the
Moyne Commission was (D)
deportation
association with the trade union
TO
movement

(A) investigate ethnic conflicts among

workers 45. In many British Caribbean
(B) bring
an immediate end territories
to anti-war during the 1930s, there was a strong link
protests
between political parties and
(C) investigate existing sOCioeconomic
conditions
(A) trade unions
(D) recommend penalties for persons (B) plantation owners
causing the unrest
(C) the established church
(D)
stipendiary magistrates
2 In their efforts to improve working
conditions around 1900, workers in the 6.
Which of the
British Caribbean MOST ofien resorted to followving female leaders
Was involved in the labour unrest of the
930s?
(A) arson

(B) strikes
(C)
(A) Audrey Jeflers
rioting (B)
(D) Picketing Elma François
(C) Dame Nita Barrow
(D) Amy Ashwood Garvey

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 Whichof the following Caribbean territories l. In what chronological order did the
became a Iree and aSsOCiated state of the nations dominate the trade in
European
USA? captive Alricans?

(A) Cuba The English

(B) Margarita . ne Dutch

(C) Hispaniola The Portuguese

(D) Puerto Rico
(A) 1, I, IM

B)
48. Which Caribbean territories were assimi- I 1,
lated by France in 1946? (D) l , 1, T

(A) Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe

(B) Marie Galante. Haiti, Dominica 52. The arrangement between the Netherlands

(C) Guadeloupe. French Guiana, and her colonies was called

Martinique
(D) Saint Barthélémy, Trinidad, (A) assimilation
Martinique (B) decolonization
C) tripartite kingdom
(D)associatedstatehood
49. The British West Indies Federation
1958 was established because
of
3. José Marti is associated with the struggle
(A) French Caribbean colonies had for independence in
begun to federate
(B) the old representative system A) Cuba
proved to be useless (B) Haiti
West Indian (C) Jamaica
(C) leaders felt that
independence would be achieved D) PuertoRico
faster through federation
(D) the erown colony governmernt had
given West Indians experience 54. What is the correct order of the steps
In running their aflairs towards full treedom in the British
Caribbean?

S. Under crown colony govcnn c (A) Apprenticeship, Emancipation Act,

Colonial Ofice expected its governorsS
abolition
and other officials to
amelioration,
trade
of slave
(8) Act. apprenticeship.
share political power with the
Emancipation
abolition of slave trade,
(A)
formerly enslaved amelioration
(B) introduce the principles of (C) Amelioration, Emancipation
Act, abolition of slave trade,
democratic government
(C)work towards improving the living apprenticeship
conditions of the enslaved (D) Abolition of slave trade,
(D) cooperate wilh the wealthy planters amelioration, Emancipation Act,
in governing the colonies
pprenticeship

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 order did the
5. Which of the following statements is true 58.
what chronological
tollowing t
events occur?
of Cua in the 1S00s?

. Haitian Revolution

(A) t had become a major sugar-

Cuban RevoIuton
pnxducing territory
LOgwod production had become
Grenadian Revolutron

a major industry.
(A) 1. Il, IIl
(C)Tohacco had replaced sugar as the
B) 1, II1, I1
leading product.
C)
(D)Indigenous Indians were the major
source of agricultural labour. D)

Which of the following

leaders was the
S6. In which of the following teritories was 9.

female prime minister of a Caribbean

Elma François an active trade unionist? fhrst
county?
(A) Belize
(B) Grenada (A) Una Marson
(C)Iinidad (B) Muriel ireaves
(D)Barbados (C)EugeniaCharles
(D) Gertrude Protain

The Cuban sugar industry in the late

nineteenth century received most of its Which of the following persons served
6.
capital from as Prime Minister of the West Indies
Federation?
A) Spain
B) the USA (A) Eric Williams
)England (B) Grantley Adams
(D) Germany (C) Alexander Bustamante
(D) Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

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