HIST 112 Test 2

Match the following

• 1763

• Mahogany revolution

• 1670

• Treaty of Versailles

• 1786

• Convention of London

• 1770s

• Treaty of Madrid

• 1783

• Treaty of Paris

Match the following

• Will and Sharper

• Led the last slave revolt in 1820.

• Admiral William Burnaby

• The first superintendent who was sent to the settlement to represent the British Crown in 1786

• Colonel Marcus Edward Despard

• Military official who got the settlers to agree to a primitive constitution

• Colonel George Arthur

• The superintendent for the settlement who gained significant power for superintendents between 1820 and 1840.

• Mansfield William Bowen

• A slave owner and magistrate who was taken to court by his slave Peggy for cruel treatment

The first British settlers - the former pirates - who lived at St. George's Caye and used this term to distinguish them from the new settlers that came after them.

• Baymen

• woodcutters

• principal inhabitants

• settlers

Resolutions passed in the Public Meeting that governed how land would be claimed.

• Burnaby's Code

• Convention of London

• location laws

• Customs of the Bay

Those enslaved African men who were responsible for cutting down the mahogany trees and trimming them of branches before they were taken to the river.

• axemen

• woodcutters

• huntsmen

• cattlemen

Location on the river where the mahogany logs were stopped and chained together before being left to float down to the river mouth for squaring.

• bark logs

• barbecue

• mahogany work

• boom

Spain gave the British formal permission to cut logwood in Belize with no limitations of where to cut.

• Convention of London

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Madrid

• Treaty of Versailles

The legal instrument by which a slave owner could free his slaves:

• freedom decree

• emancipation resolution

• manumission

• Public Meeting

A system of labor used after emancipation which required former slaves to work for their former owners for 40 hours a week without pay.

• wage labour

• indentureship

• advance and truck system

• apprenticeship

The gathering in which British settlers had the power to make laws by majority vote.

• Magistrate's Court

• Public Meeting

• Burnaby's Code

• Legislative Assembly