Caribbean History
This island was the first in the Caribbean where Christopher Columbus landed in 1492.
What is the Bahamas?
Juneteenth celebrates the end of this practice in the United States
What is slavery?
This is the largest island in the Caribbean?
What is Cuba?
This Jamaican man is known as a national hero and helped fight for freedom from slavery.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This woman is the Principal of New Heights
Who is Dr. Nichole Jones?
The island of Saint-Domingue became the first independent Black republic in 1804. What is its name today?
What is Haiti?
Juneteenth is celebrated on this day every year
What is June 19?
This sea surrounds most of the Caribbean islands.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This woman led the Maroons in Jamaica and is one of the country’s seven national heroes.
Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
This person is the co-founder and Executive Director of New Heights Charter School
This Caribbean country gained independence from British rule in 1962 and is famous for reggae music.
What is Jamaica?
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in this year.
What is 2021?
This Caribbean island is shared by two countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
This Haitian leader helped lead the only successful slave revolt in history.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
The full address of New Heights Charter School building that holds grades 6-11
What is 1690 Main St. Brockton, MA 02301
The transatlantic slave trade brought millions of Africans to the Caribbean to work on plantations. What main crop did they grow?
What is sugarcane?
The news of emancipation reached enslaved people in this U.S. state more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Texas?
The capital of Trinidad and Tobago is this city.
What is Port of Spain?
This leader helped several South American countries gain independence and is celebrated in some parts of the Caribbean.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
The grade that New Heights scholars can begin taking college classes?
What is Freshman year (or 9th grade)?
The 1831 slave rebellion in Jamaica led by this woman helped push the British toward ending slavery.
Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
This U.S. general announced the freedom of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865.
Who is General Gordon Granger?
This chain of small islands is named after the winds that blow through the region.
What are the Windward Islands?
This Trinidadian-born man became one of the founders of the U.S. Black Panther Party and was known for his work in civil rights.
Who is Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)?
Massasoit Community College (MCC) and Bridgewater State University (BSU)