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Adjustments to Emancipation
Economic Diversifiation
United States Influence in the Caribbean up to 1985
Popular Protests in the 1930s
Movements Towards Independence
100

This group provided the largest number of immigrant labourers in the Caribbean.

What are the East Indians?

100

This island had the most thriving banana industry by the late 1880s.

What is Jamaica?

100

This was the IMMEDIATE reason for the American Declaration of war against Spain in 1898.

What is the United States' ship the USS Maine was blown up in the Havana Harbour?

100

This was the period in which the Panama Canal was built.

What was 1904-1914?

100

This is the person who formed the People's National Party in Jamaica.

Who is Norman Manley?
200

The system of metayage was introduced in these colonies.

What is the French West Indies?

200

The Indo-Caribbean peasant populations were very involved in the development of this industry.

What is the rice industry?

200

The prevention of further colonization by European countries in the region was the main emphasis of this policy.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

200
The growing discontent with the various economic and social problems being faced by the majority of the population was the main finding of these commissions in 1897.

What are the Royal Commissions?

200

The West Indian Federation lasted for these years.

What are 1958 to 1962?

300

The peasantry developed mainly around these areas.

What are free villages?

300

In order to prop up the sugar industry, the planters tried this solution.

What is immigration?

300
This increased American interest in the Caribbean and the wider region in the early 20th century was an illustration of this policy.

What is Manifest Destiny?

300

The role of this Commission was to investigate the causes and the origins of the upheavals in the colonies that culminated in 1938 with protests throughout the Caribbean islands.

What is the Moyne Commission?

300

This was the MAIN source of contention in the West Indies Federation.

What is the division of monetary contributions?

400

This was the most important crop grown by the peasantry.

What are bananas?

400

These countries other than India and China were also sources of immigrant labour.

What were Africa and Madeira?
400

This policy did not allow the US to intervene in domestic affairs of other countries.

What is the good neighbor policy?

400

This is the year in which the Moyne Commission was established.

What is 1938?

400

This is an associated state in the Caribbean.

What is Puerto Rico?

500

The Chinese immigrants could be found in large numbers in the following Caribbean colonies.

What are Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad?

500

The East Indian Immigration system officially ended in this year.

What is 1917?

500

This was the US trying to control the events in neighbouring countries.

What is dollar diplomacy?

500

This is the leader of the Oil Workers' Trade Union which was established in Trinidad in 1938.

Who is Uriah Butler?

500

The referendum in Jamaica was held in this year.

What is 1961?