Jamaica
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English
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
With _________, Jamaica is the third-most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth-most populous country in the Caribbean.
2.9 million people
4.2 million people
2.5 million people
5.1 million people
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
___________ is the country's capital and largest city.
Bridgetown
Port Royal
Kingston
Montego Bay
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Christopher Columbus first arrived in Jamaica in May of 1494. He later brought other Spanish settlers who colonized the land and forced the __________, American-Indian people who had already occupied the land, into unpaid and forced labor.
Tupis
Tainos
Guaranis
Métis
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
The Spanish were the first to bring sugarcane and slavery to the island. They ruled the land for a century and a half until they were defeated by the English in __________. Slavery and sugar cultivation became Jamaica’s main trade, making the English planters incredibly wealthy.
1569
1630
1580
1655
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
When the English arrived, the Spaniards fled to the neighboring islands. Their enslaved people escaped into the mountains and formed their own independent groups, called ___________. The _________ were in time joined by other enslaved people who escaped from the English. For a long time, they fought against the English who sought to re-enslave them. So successful were the ________, fighting from their fortresses, that the English were forced to sign peace treaties granting them self-government and ceding to them the mountain lands that they inhabited.
Maroons
Aborigines
Communities
Neighborhoods
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Slavery in Jamaica was abolished in _________.
1888
1864
1870
1834
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Beginning in the 1840s, the British began using Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations. The island achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August _________.
1962
1955
1930
1948
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
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