Grade 5 Social Studies

Who were the first group to enter the Caribbean Region?:

• Spanish

• Amerdindians

• Columbus

• Dutch

Which were the two indigenous groups in the Caribbean?

• Aztec and Maya
• Omec and Nahuatl
• Sioux and Cherokee
• Taino and Carib

Spices were valuable to the Europeans to preserve meat.

• true

• false

As a result of Christopher Columbus the Taino and Carib tribes:

• profited off trade with Spain
• were almost wiped out
• lived in peace with the Spanish
• were conquered by the French

Why did the Europeans come to the West Indies?

• To Spread Christianity

  They wanted to find a new route to trade spices with China na India

  They wanted to explore and expand their wealth.

• They wanted to go on vacation

  They were tired of the cold climate

  They wanted to enslave people.

• CreoleThey wanted to try tropical foods.

  They wanted to trade with the Tainos and Caribs

  They wanted to find new places.

• They wanted to go west but got lost.

  A bad storm blew them to the Caribbean

  They were invited by the Indiginous people.

• t

Which best describes the origin of Caribbean people?

• The all descended from migrants.

• They all descended from Africans.

• They all descended from Europeans.

• They are only descendants of Amerindians.

Christopher Columbus landed -------- in 1492.

• in New York
• In Asia
• In the Bahamas
• in Mexico

The other Europeans such as the British and French came to the Caribbean because they were invited by the Spaniards.

• True

• False

Identify the sentences in which the underlined term is used correcttly.

• I. Our African ancestors worked as slaves on the sugar planatations.

• II. The Chinese came to Jamaica as indentured workers on the Middle Passage.

• III. The Africans received low salaries during their enslavement.

• IV. Plantations were large farms that the Europeans developed on the Caribbean lands to engage a large slave workforce.

There were different categories of Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean .

• True

• False