ETHNIC GROUPS
A community of workers who share a common cultural background.
What is culture?
Year Spanish arrived in Jamaica.
Was it 1494?
The year the English arrived in Jamaica.
Was it 1655?
Reason the Africans came in large numbers.
Did the English need large and cheap labour force?
Crops Tainos were forced to grow for the Spanish.
Were they tobacco and sugarcane?
Ethnic groups differ in ______.
What is hair texture, skin colour, facial features and country of original?
Duration of Spanish rule in Jamaica.
Was it 161 years?
Number of years the English colonized Jamaica.
Was it 307 years?
Major port in England from which the ships sailed to West Africa.
Were they Liverpool and Bristol ports?
Reasons most Tainos died.
Were they hard labour and diseases such as smallpox?
Three ethnic groups in the Caribbean.
Who are the Tainos, Spanish, English and Africans?
Original destination of Christopher Columbus.
Was it the East Indies?
Reasons the English came to Jamaica.
Was it the large amount of money the spanish made from the enslaved Africans?
Were there good lands for farming?
Goods traded for Africans.
Were they manufactured goods, clothing and rum?
Corporal punishment meted out to the Tainos.
Was it flogging?
Continents from which our ancestors come.
What are Africa, Europe and Asia?
Reasons for naming the new lands West Indies.
Was it to find a shorter route to the East Indies?
Reasons the English defeat the Spaniards.
Was it that the English had more powerful weapons and larger armies?
Vessels that transported the Africans to the Caribbean.
Were they ships?
Place of escape for the Tainos.
Was it the mountains?
Two reasons the Spanish came to the West Indies.
Are they gold and spice?
Community in St. Ann that Columbus arrived.
Was it Discovery Bay?
Country some of the Spanish fled to after the English defeated them in Jamaica.
Was it Cuba?
Name given to the leg of the journey from Africa to the Caribbean.
Was it the Middle Passage?
Year enslavement of the Tainos was abolished.
Was it 1640?