Social Studies

Mid- Term Test

Garde 6
Date: ______________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________________
Write the correct answer for the following: -
1. A contract for a long period of labour or service ___________________
2. A person working under a contract of indentureship. _______________
3. A legal agreement between two persons. __________________________
4. An annual festival with music costume and street dancing
__________________
5. People who move to live in another place or country. ____________________
6. Celebration, usually an annual one for a large group of people.
_____________________
7. A social group or category of the population that, in a larger society, is set apart
and bound together by common ties of race, language, nationality, or culture.
_________________________________________________
8. Is the way of life of a particular people, including customs, traditions, festivals,
beliefs, religions, language, arts and crafts and ways of behaving.
_______________________________________
9. The things of value that our ancestors, generations of people who came before
us, have passed down to us. ______________________________
10.The persons who lived before us are called our _____________________

Write the correct ethnic group after each statement.

11.We came from Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. We were poor farmers.
______________________________________________________
12.About half a million of us came to the British Caribbean between 1838 and
1917 to work on sugar plantations. _________________________________
13.We came to the Caribbean on a contract to work on the sugar plantations. We
came from small villages in South China. _____________________________
14.About 21,500 of us migrated to Jamaica, about 145,000 went to Trinidad and
Tobago and 239,000 went to Guyana. ________________________________
15.We came to the British Caribbean from St. Helena and Sierra Leone as
indentured workers between 1840 and 1865. ___________________________
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Question 22-26

Choose the correct answer.

1. Mr. Moransingh left India in the late 1800’s and migrated to Jamaica. Which of the
following could be a push factor for him leaving his country?
a. Job opportunities
b. Poverty and starvation
c. Good weather conditions
d. Hope for a better tomorrow

“They were not slaves. They were contract workers who agreed to work for a period known as
indentureship in exchange for their passage to the New world. They came in search of new life in
the Caribbean.”

2. . Which group is NOT being described in the passage above?

 a. East indians
b. British
c. Portuguese
d. Chinese

Read the paragraph below and complete the table by writing the Push Factor and the Pull
Factor for each person.
Leroy Chang left China to work in Jamaica for a few years. He was from a very poor family. Mr.
Chang heard that he could make a lot of money working on a sugar estate in Jamaica. While
working on the plantation he met Mr. Lyn Sam who came to Jamaica from Trinidad. He had
completed his contract and the plantation he was working on was seriously damaged by flooding
and insects.

Push Factor Pull Factor

29. Leroy Chang

30. Lyn Sam

31. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the conditions for the East Indian
labourers?
a. They were given housing
b. They were given clothing and tools
c. They were given basic food rations
d. They were not allowed to leave the plantations

32. All of the following factors were what pushed the East Indians and Chinese to migrate to
the Caribbean EXCEPT for:
a. educational opportunities
b. threats to family
c. natural disasters
d. high levels of pollution

The table below shows some statements about the life of Chinese and East Indian
immigrants on the plantation. Indicate by ticking if you agree or disagree with each
statement.

Statement Agree Disagree

33. The Chinese and East Indian had more freedom than the
emancipated Africans.

34. The Chinese and East Indians were recruited to work as indentured
labourers on the sugar plantations of Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad
and Tobago.

35. Labourers were not fined or punished if the contract was violated.

36. The labourers lived a comfortable life and were well paid.

37. Many of the labourers were converted to Christianity,

38. Africans, Indians and Chinese sometimes have distrust and dislike
among each other.
39. Which of the following statements is TRUE ?
a. Migrants were forbidden from practising their religions.
b. Children were not cared for as promised by the plantation owners.
c. East Indians did not practise their traditions and culture while working on the plantation.

40. Why did the first set of Indians and Chinese come to the Caribbean? They
a. Were looking for religious freedom
b. Were looking for free or inexpensive land for farming.
c. Came to work on plantations as indentured servants.
d. Came looking for land to establish a small business.