St. Hugh’s High School
Practice Examinations 2009
Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination
History
Paper 02
2 hours
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (p.m.)
Unit 1: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. You should spend 10 minutes reading through the paper before starting to write your responses.
2. Answer TWO questions, ONE on EACH module.
3. You must answer ONE document-based question and ONE essay question.
SECTION A: MODULE 1
Answer ONE question only in this section.
Question 1
Study the documents below on Spanish Settlement and Empire in the Caribbean and then answer
A – E which follow.
Document I
Sometimes three or four towns or villages [in Hispaniola] are given up to the disposal of a certain number of Spaniards and the inhabitant [Native Americans] distributed among them. They employ them in all sort of service… These people though free have been made slaves and the greatest part of them destroyed.
Las Casas
An Account of the First Voyage and Discoveries Made by the Spaniard in America, 1540.
Document III
Their [Kalinago] arms are arrows, in the place of iron weapons, and as they have no iron, some of the point their arrows with tortoise-shell, and others make their arrow heads of fish spines, these prove dangerous weapons to a naked people like the Indians, and may inflict severe injury, but to men of our nation are not very formidable.
Letter from Dr. Chanca, Physician to Columbus’ fleet on his second voyage 1494.
Document III
Such Fruits as are brought out of Spain, into this Island, [Hispaniola] prosper marvelously…Beast do also increase like abundance…
Oviedo, On the West Indies, 1577
Document IV
I caused my master to shape his course directly for the Isle of Trinidad… and on the first of February, came to anchor under a point thereof called Ouripan…These people [Native Americans] did often resort unto my ship and brought us hens, hogs, plantains, potatoes, pines and tobacco., and many other pretty commodities, which they exchanged with us for hatchets, knives, hooks, bells and glass buttons.
Voyage of Robert Dudley, 1594 – 95.
a. With reference to Document I, give TWO reason why the Spaniards “distributed” the Native Americans among themselves. [4 marks]
b. With reference to Document I describe FOUR “sorts of service” which Native Americans in Hispaniola perform for the Spaniards. [ 4 marks]
c. What does Document II suggests about the ability of the Kalinago to resist European aggression?
[4 marks]
d. List THREE “fruits” and THREE “beasts” referred to in Document III and explain their economic impact on Hispaniola. [6 marks]
e. I) Give THREE reason for the difference suggested in Document I and IV in the relationship between the Native Americans and the Spaniards. [6 marks]
II) Comment on the significance of the items of trade mentioned in Document IV
[6 marks]
Total 30 Marks
Question 2.
Select TWO of the indigenous groups , ONE from EACH of the following categories:
Category 1: Aztec, Inca, Maya
Category 2: Kalinago, Taino, Tupi
For the TWO groups you selected, discuss the factors that enabled them to develop advanced societies before contact with the Europeans in 1492.
( 30 marks)
Question 3.
Comment on the claims that Nordic and West African people came to the Americas before Columbus. (30 marks)
SECTION B: MODULE 2
Answer ONE question only from this section.
Questions 4.
The extracts below relate to the economic cultures of enslaved peoples. Study them, then answer questions (a) to (d) that follow
Document 1
The way in which I made my money was this. –when my master and mistress went from home, …I took in Washing and sold coffee and yams and other provisions to the captains of ships.. for I wanted by all honest means, to earn money to buy my freedom. Sometimes I bought a hog cheap on board ship and sold it for double the money on shore…
The History of Mary Prince – A West Indian Slave: Related by Herself.
Moria Ferguson (ed.), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, p.81
Originally Published 1831
Document II
Besides the profits arising from their super abundance of provisions, which the better sort of negroes are able to sell regularly once a week at Savannah La Mar [Market], to a considerably amount, they keep a large stock of poultry and pigs without numbers; which latter cost their owners but little…
Matthew Gregory Lewis, Esq M.P. Journal of a West Indian Proprietor,
Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica.
New York, Negro University Press, 1969, p. 112. Originally Published 1834
Document III
Every thing is carried on the head and it is astonishing what immense loads they [slaves] will convey for a great distance from eighty to one hundred pounds of their own yams or cocoas is not unusual to be take to market. When we say their own, we mean that in their possession; because whether grown on the won ground or stolen from their master it is still deemed their own…
Bernard Martin Senior, Jamaica As It Was, As It Is and As It May Be.
New York: Negro University Press 1969, p. 37, Originally Published 1835.
a. What does Document I suggest about the experiences and survival strategies of enslaved women in urban settings in the Caribbean? [9 marks]
b. With reference to Document II, identify the groups of enslaved people referred to as “the better sort of Negroes”. [3 marks]
c. With reference to Document II and III, comment on the economic activities of the enslaved, apart from plantation labour [9 marks]
d. Documents II and III refer to the economic benefits that the enslaved gained from provision growing, livestock, rearing and marketing.
Outline the other ways in which these activities were important to the enslaved.
[9 marks]
Total 30 marks
Question 5.
Examine the reasons why European Indentured labour gave way to Arican slavery in the Caribbean in the 17th century. (30 marks)
Question 6.
Assess the impact of the Atlantic trade on West Africa’s economy and society up to 1800. ( 30 marks)
END OF TEST
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