PRE-COLUMBUS
These people were the first to inhabit Jamaica?
Tainos
What ethnic group came to Jamaican with the Spanish?
Jews
Maroon wind-instrument used by leaders to communicate with their villages
Abeng
Who led the Christmas Rebellion?
Samuel Sharpe
Two political leaders hailed as the founding fathers of Jamaica
Sir Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley
A group of people that provided fierce resistance to Columbus and his men when they landed on their small island
Kalinagos
What European Group first occupied Haiti
Spanish when they had Hispaniola fully
Type of Warfare made popular by the maroons to fend off British attack
Guerilla
Two forms of resistance to slavery.
Insurrectionary resistance and Non-insurrectionary resistance
Name the Regional Integration entity that was rejected for self-governance by Jamaica.
West Indies Federation
Name of the Taino religious leader
Shaman/ Bohique
In What year did the triangular trade end?
1807
Name 2 Famous Maroon Leaders
Nanny, Accompong, Cudjoe & Quao
The only “successful” slave revolution in the Caribbean
Haitian Revolution
“A man without knowledge of his past history and culture is like a tree without roots.” Who said
Marcus Garvey
The Spaniards took control of Jamaica from the Tainos in this year
1509
What European countries signed the treaty of Tordesillas splitting the new world in half?
Spain and Portugal
In what year was the controversial maroon treaty signed?
1739
What religious group was instrumental to emancipation movements in Jamaica
Baptists
One from ten leaves nought: Which former politician and historian said this?
Eric Williams