Theme 1: The Indigenous Peoples and the Europeans

Describe migratory and settlement patterns of indigenous peoples.

Describe social, political, and economic practices of indigenous peoples.

Explain the relationship between art forms, beliefs, and technology.

Explain the factors that led to Columbus' voyages.

Assess the impact of Europeans on indigenous peoples up to 1600.

Assess the impact of indigenous peoples on Europeans up to 1600.

Theme 2: Caribbean Economy and Slavery

Explain the reasons for the change from tobacco to sugar and logwood to mahogany.

Assess the social, political, and economic consequences of these changes.

Explain the reasons for the enslavement of Africans.

Describe the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans.

Describe how African labour was used in areas other than sugar production.

Describe the organisation of a typical sugar plantation.

Describe the manufacturing processes on a sugar plantation before 1838.

Identify markets for sugar plantation products before 1850.

Describe African cultural forms in the Caribbean up to 1838.

Describe the social relations in slave society.

Theme 3: Resistance and Revolt

Explain the various forms of slave control.

Evaluate the various forms of resistance by enslaved men and women.

Explain the origins and development of Maroon societies.

Explain the origins and course of the Haitian Revolution up to 1804.

Assess the effects of the Revolution on Haiti and the wider Caribbean.

Explain the causes, nature, and consequences of major revolts.

Theme 4: Metropolitan Movements towards Emancipation

Assess the effects of nineteenth-century revolts on the emancipation process.

Assess the attitudes and arguments advanced by interest groups.

Compare the course of the British, French, and Spanish anti-slavery movements.

Describe the British and French Amelioration policies.

Evaluate the clauses of the 1833 Act of Abolition (Emancipation Act).

Assess the workings of the Apprenticeship system up to 1838.

Analyse the terms of the 1833 Act of Emancipation.

Theme 5: Adjustments to Emancipation, 1838-1876

Identify the problems affecting the sugar industry in the English-speaking Caribbean 1838-1854.

Describe the attitudes to labour after 1838.

Account for the various schemes of migration as a solution to labour problems.

Assess the effects of immigration on the sugar industry and society.

Evaluate the impact of free village settlements.

Assess the contribution of free peasants to Caribbean society.

Explain the reasons for the adoption of Crown Colony Government.

Theme 6: Caribbean Economy, 1875-1985

Explain factors creating crisis in the British-colonised Caribbean sugar industry.

Assess measures taken to resolve the sugar industry crisis.

Analyse factors leading to the growth of the Cuban sugar industry.

Explain factors for the growth of alternate agricultural enterprises.

Explain factors for the establishment of extractive and service industries.

Assess the effects of industrialisation on the English-speaking Caribbean.

Theme 7: The United States in the Caribbean, 1776-1985

Assess the reasons for United States' interest in the Caribbean (1776-1870).

Explain factors for United States' involvement in selected territories (1898-1985).

Assess the consequences of United States' involvement in selected territories.

Describe the policies of the Castro revolution.

Assess the United States' response to the Castro revolution (1959-1962).

Explain the impact of the Castro revolution on the Caribbean (1959-1985).

Assess the impact of United States' involvement in the English-speaking Caribbean (1939-1985).

Theme 8: Caribbean Political Development up to 1985

Explain reasons for the failure of major attempts at unification before 1939.

Assess the relationship between popular protest and political developments (1935-1958).

Explain reasons for the establishment of a federation of the British West Indies (1945-1958).

Explain reasons for the failure of the British West Indies Federation in 1962.

Describe the contribution of outstanding personalities to Caribbean integration.

Describe constitutional arrangements used as alternatives to independence.

Theme 9: Caribbean Society, 1900-1985

Describe the social and economic conditions between 1900 and 1935.

Outline efforts made to improve social conditions by different agents.

Describe various aspects of social life.

Explain the reasons for the emergence of various religious groups.

Assess the implications of membership in various groups.