Grade 5 Social Studies Revision_Jan 2025

What is the term used to describe Caribbean countries being owned and ruled by European countries?

• migration

• colonialism

• Middle Passage

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Africans

,

(b) Europeans

• Practiced Christianity

• Wore rags

• Lived in very small huts

• Lived in large houses

• Healthcare was good and easy

• Wore fancy outfits

• Were given rations to eat

• Had clean refreshing water

• Slave women cooked for them

• Religious practices were forced on them

• No clean water

• Had no healthcare. Relied on bush medicines

Replace the words in the brackets with the correct word.

Slavery lasted for over three (hundred years) ​ (a)   during which many enslaved Africans (fought against)​ (b)   slavery through many protests and revolts. Many ran away from sugar (farms) ​ (c)   and sometimes managed to escape into the mountains to join the (runaway enslaved Africans)​ (d)   . Many enslaved people worked hard for the (ending)​ (e)   of slavery.

• centuries
• resisted
• plantations
• Maroons
• abolition
• decades
• welcomed
• fields
• Tainos
• Independence

Match the following words with their correct meanings.

• Trading

• Owned territories

• Law

• Buying and selling

• Colonies

• Freedom

• Emancipation

• Treated as property of European planters

• Enslaved People

• Rule of the land

Reasons for ethnic diversity among Caribbean people

• Spanish

• Were jealous of Spanish wealth in New World

• British

• Wanted to find gold and a new route to the East

• Chinese

• Forced to come to provide free labour on plantations

• Africans

• Were brought over as indentured labourers after abolition of slavery

_________ is the period of service of the enslaved Africans between the Emancipation Act and full Emancipation.

• Slavery

• Indentureship

• Apprenticeship

Which of the following ethnic groups colonised the Caribbean?

• Indigenous people

• East Indians

• Europeans

• Chinese

Which of the following activities are ways to promote Caribbean cultural heritage at a festival

I. National dishes of the islands on sale

II. Quadrille, Kumina & Maypole dance demonstrations

III. Water slides, ferris wheel & bounce-abouts

IV. Cricket competition

• I and II only

• I, II and III

• I, II and IV

• I, III and IV

Our __________ speaks to ways of life that have been inherited over time, handed down from one generation to the next.

• cultural heritage

• caribbean diversity

• caribbean identity

Identify the primary aspect of Caribbean culture that is a part of worship

• Food

• Government

• Architecture

• Music