Independence & Emire
This 1898 war ended Spanish colonial rule in the Caribbean.
Spanish-American War
These “men” built the Panama Canal under a racially segregated pay system.
The silver men
This 1938 estate was the site of a major Jamaican labor rebellion.
The Frome Estate
He led the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Fidel Castro
Dominican dictator assassinated in 1961.
Rafael Trujillo
This U.S. amendment allowed intervention in Cuban affairs.
Platt Amendment
This U.S. fruit company dominated Central American economies.
The United Fruit Company
This Trinidadian leader founded the National Unemployment Movement.
Uriah "Buzz" Butler
These mountains served as the rebel base for Castro’s guerrillas.
Sierra Maestra
Puerto Rican nationalist who led the 1954 U.S. Congress attack.
Lolita Lebron
This U.S. policy told Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
He founded the UNIA and promoted Black nationalism.
Marcus Garvey
Belizean labor leader known for organizing the “Unemployed Brigade.”
Antonio Soberanis Gomez
Failed 1961 invasion backed by the U.S.
The Bay of Pigs
Grenadian revolutionary who led the New Jewel Movement.
Maurice Bishop
This agreement gave Puerto Rico to the U.S.
Treaty of Paris (1898)
This poet co-founded the Négritude movement.
Aimé Césaire
Founder of Trinidad’s Oilfields Workers’ Union.
Adrian Cola Rienzi
Group of women revolutionaries who formed their own combat platoon.
The Mariana Grajales Platoon
Jamaican Prime Minister known for democratic socialism.
Michael Manley
Dominican guerrillas who resisted U.S. occupation were called this.
Gavilleros
The 1948 arrival of this ship marked mass Caribbean migration to Britain.
The Empire Windrush
This movement in Jamaica combined spiritual ideas with anticolonial politics.
Rastafarianism
This political party of the 1940s inspired Castro’s activism.
The Orthodox Party
Guyanese historian whose activism shaped Caribbean thought.
Walter Rodney