History Unit I

Multiple Choice Paper2013

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1. Which century did Portuguese trade with 5. The main supply of gold to Western Europe
West Arica originally begin? in the C14th was from
a. 12th a. The Mediterranean
b. 13th b. The Middle East
c. 17th c. West Africa
d. 15th d. Asia

2. Which of the following criteria did the 6. Which of the following suggests possible
mainland indigenous societies use for social presence of Africans in the Americas before
stratification? 1492?
a. The Saga of Erik the Red
I occupation b. Mayan worship of a dark skinned
II lineage god
III wealth c. Mention of Africans in Balboa’s
IV colour records
d. Use of shells as currency in Central
a. I and II America
b. I and III
c. I, II and III 7. Which of the following groups of evidence
d. II, III and IV would be considered most reliable to the
historian?
3. Which was the system under which
indigenous labour was to be given in a. Norse coin, spindle, guanine
exchange for conversion to Christianity? b. Sagas and journal entries
a. Leonage c. Contemporary maps of journeys of
b. Coartacion discovery
c. Reconquista d. Ocean currents and trade winds
d. Repartimiento
8. Early expeditions of Portuguese into Africa
4. By which century had Norse contact with found difficulty in penetrating to the interior
the Americas occurred? because
a. 8th
b. 9th I there were few navigable rivers that led to
c. 10th the interior
II Africans were aggressive and so prevented
d. 11th
 the advancement of the traders into the d. Bartolome de Las Casas
interior
III tropical diseases caused high mortality rates 13. Spanish adventurers in the Americas were
among traders called
a. Hidalgos
a. I and II b. Cabildos
b. I and III c. Conquistadores
c. II and III d. Vaqueros
d. I, II and III
14. The final subjugation of the Aztecs and
9. Which of the following was NOT an Incas by Spanish forces was MAINLY a
important Portuguese fort on the coast of result of
West Africa during the C15th?
a. Superior weaponry
a. El Mina b. Military strategy
b. Arguin c. Internal dissension
c. Timbuktu d. Diseases
d. Axim
15. The capital of the Aztec empire was
10. Portuguese monopoly of trade in enslaved a. Texcoco
Africans was broken in the late C16th b. Tenochtitlan
MAINLY by the c. Macchu Picchu
d. Mayapans
a. Spanish and Dutch
b. English and French
c. English and Dutch
d. French and Spanish
16. West Indian planters gave provision grounds
11. The Treaty of Tordesillas to the enslaved MAINLY to
a. Keep the enslaved occupied
a. gave Spain control of all territories in b. Supply internal markets
the Western Hemisphere c. Decrease the planters’ food expenses
b. gave Portugal control of all lands in d. Ensure that all estate land was
the East cultivated
c. divided all newly discovered lands
between Spain and Portugal
d. divided all land between Spain and 17. Which of the following statements MOST
Portugal with the exception of Brazil accurately relates to chattel slavery in the
Caribbean?
12. The encomienda system was made official a. The enslaved worked for five days
Spanish policy in 1503 by and got the weekends off
b. Plantation owners were prohibited
a. Hernan Cortes from separating families
b. Nicolas de Ovando c. Laws protected the enslaved from
c. Christopher Columbus harsh forms of punishment
 d. The enslaved were considered as the 22. The Haitian Revolution was fought
property of the owner MAINLY because
a. The enslaved wanted their freedom
18. Which of the following factors BEST b. Rich whites wanted autonomy from
accounts for the European preference for France
Africans as chattel slaves in the seventeenth c. Free coloureds wanted equality with
century? whites
a. Africans were available in large d. The poor whites wanted freedom
numbers from discrimination
b. Africans were ideally suited for
labour in the tropics 23. Which of the following factors BEST
c. Enslaved Africans could be accounts for the success of the Haitian
converted to Christianity Revolution?
d. There were already established forms a. The religious rituals performed by
of human bondage in Africa the leaders
b. The assistance rendered by Blacks
19. The first nation to be involved in the Trans from Santo Domingo
Atlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans was c. The hilly terrain in the interior which
a. Portugal facilitated guerilla warfare
b. Holland d. Use of sophisticated European
c. Britain weapons by revolutionaries
d. Spain

24. Which of the following strategies of

economic survival was LEAST used by the
20. The ‘seasoning’ of newly enslaved Africans enslaved Africans in the Caribbean?
took place during the a. Rearing animals
a. Scramble b. Bartering
b. Middle Passage c. Bargaining for better wages
c. First month on the estate d. Cultivating provision grounds
d. Journey to the coast of Africa

25. One of the provisions of the Amelioration

21. Maroon societies posed a serious threat to Proposals of 1823 was
plantocracy MAINLY because Maroons a. Restriction of Sunday labour
a. Stole supplies from the plantation b. Restriction of slave marriages
b. Were known for their expertise in c. Granting of freedom to children
guerilla warfare under six
c. Grew crops such as sugar cane and d. Requirement that the slaves attend
coffee for trade Sunday church services
d. Served as a constant reminder of
successful resistance to slavery
26. Which of the following factors account for
the eventual failure of amelioration 29. The last territory in the Americas to abolish
proposals? slavery was

I the planters were opposed to the a. Cuba

proposal
b. Puerto Rico
II the enslaved did not understand the c. USA
provisions d. Brazil
III the colonial government failed to
implement the proposals 30. Workers’ rebellions in the British West
Indies in the latter half of the C19th were a
a. I and II result of
b. I and III
c. II and III I poor social amenities
d. I, II and III II introduction of immigrant labour
III lack of political representation
27. Which of the following statements
accurately reflect the Mansfield Judgment of a. I and II
1772? b. I and III
a. It abolished trading in enslaved c. II and III
Africans d. I, II and III
b. It outlawed enslavement in the
Caribbean 31. Which of the following was NOT a source
c. It abolished enslavement in the of immigrant labour for the British West
British Empire Indian planters?
d. It recognized that enslavement in
Britain was unlawful a. The Azores
b. Java
c. Madeira
d. Mauritius

28. Slave societies actually achieved freedom in 32. Planters supported schemes for immigration
the Americas by because

I imperial legislation I immigrants would reduce the black-white

II revolution ratio in the islands
III civil war II immigrants would suppress wages and
create competition in the labour market
a. I and II III planters would once again assume control
b. II and III over the labourforrce
c. I, II and III
 a. I and II 37. Which of the following Haitian leaders did
b. I and III NOT revive plantation and commercial
c. II and III agriculture in Haiti after 1804?
d. I, II and III a. Dessalines
b. Christophe
33. West Indian planters attempted to import c. Petion
immigrant labourers from all of the d. Boyer
following EXCEPT
38. The newly independent nation of Haiti faced
a. Baltimore problems of
b. Atlanta
c. Philadelphia I political instability
d. New York II hostilities from the international community
III a war ravaged economy
34. Indian immigrants were located on
a. I and II
a. banana estates in Jamaica b. I and III
b. citrus plantations in Dominica c. II and III
c. sugar estates in Cuba d. I, II and III
d. nutmeg estates in Grenada
39. Which of the following factors prevented the
35. Sirdas were creation of a free society in Haiti between 1804 and
a. Recruiters of immigrants 1825?
b. Supervisors of indentured gangs
c. Indian merchants a. Mulattoes control of the town
d. Local magistrates during b. Forced labour on the plantations
indentureship c. Division of land to peasants for subsistent
agriculture
d. The removal of white ownership of property

36. “Indian Immigration is just another form of 40. Which of the following statements describes
slavery” Which factor contributed MOST to Associated Statehood in the British Colonies?
this view?
a. lack of proper nutrition of the a. The colonies had control over both their
Indians foreign policies and internal affairs
b. movement of Indians away from b. Britain had control over both the colonies
plantation was restricted foreign policies and internal affairs
c. Indians engaged in full-time labour c. The colonies had control over their foreign
d. Indians died from diseases like policies but not their internal affairs
chicken pox and dysentery d. Britain had control over the colonies foreign
affairs but the colonies had control over
their internal affairs
41. Which of the following was an objective of the 44. Which of the following BEST explains why the
Cuban government in relation to the rest of the West Indian Federation failed?
Caribbean and Latin America during the 1960s and
1970s? a. The lack of power to raise taxes
b. Bickering between leading personalities
a. To help other ‘Third World’ nations to c. Weaknesses of communication
achieve liberation d. Lack of commitment to regionalism
b. To undermine democracy in the region
c. To replace the US as the principal power in 45. Which of the following was NOT an overseas
the region department of France?
d. To treat the needs of the region with
indifference a. Haiti
b. Guadeloupe
42. By the 1970s the MAJOR advancements in c. Martinique
Cuba were in the areas of d. French Guiana

a. Sport and culture

b. Health and education
c. Education and politics
d. Science and technology

43. Which of the following factors BEST accounts

for the lack of a united position by Caribbean
leaders towards the Cuban Revolution between
1960 and 1983?

a. Conflicts between parliamentary democracy

and communism
b. The influence of British foreign policy on
the wider Caribbean region
c. The influence of CARICOM on Caribbean
affairs
d. Preoccupation with domestic policy