Lucayans
The first people to inhabit The Bahamas.
Who are the Lucayans?
The first European settlers to The Bahamas were called this.
What is the Eleutherian Adventurers?
In 1670, The Bahamas was given to this group of people to manage.
Who are the Lord Proprietors (Proprietary Rule)?
The Golden Age of Piracy.
What is 1650-1730?
This illegal activity resulted from the U.S. Civil War.
What is blockade running?
The Lucayans included at least 6 sources of meat in their diet. What are they?
What are turtle, iguana, snake, fish, conch, hutia.
The first constitution of The Bahamas.
What are the Articles and Orders of the Eleutherian Adventurers?
In 1718, the form of government changed to this form.
What is Royal Government?
A pirate commissioned by a government.
What is a privateer?
This illegal activity resulted from the passing of the Volstead Act in the United States in 1919.
What are Bootlegging and rum-running?
The Lucayans lived in small villages. Their houses were of this shape and construction.
What is round wooden huts with pointed thatch roofs?
This group came to The Bahamas as religious refugees.
Who are the Eleutherian Adventurers?
The first Royal Governor to The Bahamas.
Who is Woodes Rogers?
The real name of the famed pirate known as Blackbeard.
Who is Edward Teach?
The term used to describe periods of prosperity and depression in the Bahamian economy.
What is "boom and bust"?
Lucayans worshiped these small idols.
What are zemis?
This group came to The Bahamas after the American War of Independence.
Who are the Loyalists?
The motto under which piracy was brought to an end by Woodes Rogers.
Expulsis Piratis, Restituta Commercia
(Pirates expelled, commerce restored)
Two female pirates who sailed with Captain Jack Rackham aka Calico Jack.
Who are Anne Bonney and Mary Reade?
Blockage running and prohibition brought these benefits to The Bahamas.
Money, jobs, warehouses, hotels, public works (electricity, water and sewerage, deepened harbor, Prince George Wharf), tourists.
The Lucayans were ruled by a leader of what title?
What is a cacique?
The Loyalists felt superior to the earlier settlers and called them by this name.
What are "conchs"?
This governor rid The Bahamas of piracy, strengthened the island's defenses (forts), and established an elected House of Assembly.
Who is Woodes Rogers?
What tactics did Blackbeard use to terrify his enemies?
What are place smoking cords in his beard and carry six pistols?
During blockade running and bootlegging periods, supplies would come from this country to Nassau, to be smuggled into this country.
What is England to the United States?