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Problems Affecting Sugar Industry
Peasantry
Government
Free Villages
Caribbean Immigration
100
What did planters lack which they required for wages and labor
What is capital/money
100
What was the primary purpose for peasants growing crops
subsistence (just enough to live off of)
100
What was the system of government established in the colonies after Old Representative was abandoned
Crown Colony Government
100
What faith did most of the free villages believe in
Christian (Baptist/Quaker also accepted)
100
Which immigration scheme was the most important
Indian
200
Why did estates by 1854 encumber?
The planters were in debt
200
What did peasants do with excess crops?
sell them at local markets
200
What group in the Old Representative system controlled the money and its usage
The Assembly
200
What colony had the most land available to form free villages?
Jamaica
200
What happened to the European immigrants
Most died of illness or refused to work
300
Why did 13 West Indies companies go bankrupt?
The English wouldn't lend money to Caribbean companies/banks
300
What were the three major aspects in which peasants contributed to the Caribbean
Society, Economy, Politics
300
What act passed by the imperial government limited the trading freedom of planters, angering many
The navigation act
300
How did missionaries help ex-slaves acquire land?
buy large amounts of land, sell small plots to members of their congregation
300
Did the sugar plantations do better after they got the replacement labor
Yes
400
Emancipation gave the rise to _____
What is Machinery/technology
400
Why were peasants excluded from civic participation
illiteracy
400
What were the three key features of Old Representative Government
Governor, the council, and the assembly
400
What made the land free villages were founded upon not valued by plantation owners
infertile/mountainous/otherwise unusable
400
What united all of the immigrants in their struggle
Religion
500
Where was the wage level highest in Caribbean territories?
Where land was available and peasantry developing well
500
What were the three colonies in which peasantry rapidly grew to the struggles of the sugar industry and farmers
Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad
500
What was the main role of the executive council in the Crown Colony system
To serve as a liaison between governor and lawmakers in Britain
500
What did ex-slaves name the Negro Colonies after? Give an example.
anti-slavery activists. Wilberforce, Clarkson, Sturge, and Sligo.
500
What was a positive outcome of the immigration
Larger public areas, slowed diversification of the economy