Our Common Culture Gr 5

The Caribbean has seen a lot of colonizer that took over. Jamaica was first a colony of which if the following?

• England

• Spain

• France

• Africa

The Spaniards were gold diggers who wanted wealth, why were the Africans brought to work as slaves on the sugar plantations?

• they were the cheapest to buy

• they were easy to capture

• Amerindian slavery was abolished in the Caribbean

• After many Amerindians died there was great demand for African slave labour.

When did the English colonize Jamaica?

• 1655

• 1665

• 1603

• 1633

What is the correct term for the people who came before us?

• descendants

• ethnic group

• settlers

• ancestors

Which represents the correct chronological order in which the following events took place?

• Tacky Revolt - abolition of the slave trade - Christmas Rebellion - emancipation

• Christmas Rebellion - abolition of the slave trade - Tacky Revolt - emancipation

• Tacky Revolt - Christmas Rebellion - abolition of the slave trade - emancipation

• Christmas Rebellion - Tacky Revolt - abolition of the slave trade - emancipation

Which of the following jobs was done by a house slave during their time on the plantation in the Caribbean?

• ploughing a field to plant sugar cane

• boiling cane juice in the sugar factory

• washing clothes at the Great House

• reaping sugar cane

Which of the following best describes the origin of Caribbean people?

• they are all descendants of migrants to the Caribbean

• they are descendants of Africans

• they are all descendants of Europeans

• they are only descendants of Amerindians

In which of these areas would a windward Maroon in eastern Jamaica be hiding in the 1700's?

• Blue Mountains

• May Day Mountain

• Cockpit Country

• Bull Head Mountain

Which of the following was NOT true about Nanny of the Maroons?

• she was never enslaved

• she founded Nanny Town

• she led raids on sugar plantations

• we do not know for sure when died

Of all the uprising in Jamaica, which of the following do we correctly associate with Samuel Sharpe?

• The Trelawny Maroons

• The Christmas Day Rebellion

• The Morant Bay Rebellion

• The campaign to help poor freed slaves