Constitutional Developments
What system, adopted in British colonial America and the West Indies but not in British colonies in Africa and the East until modern times, involved summoning freemen to an assembly for representation?
What is the representative system?
Which 1941 declaration by Churchill and Roosevelt outlined the principles of self-determination and influenced British colonies to push for independence?
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Which two main islands in the Lesser Antilles are part of the present-day French Caribbean?
What are Guadeloupe and Martinique?
This Governor of the Leeward Islands established the first federation in the British West Indies in 1674 to promote administrative convenience.
Who is Sir William Stapleton?
In the seventeenth century, the British government handed administrative responsibility of the Leeward Islands to this Earl, ensuring minimal expense and oversight.
Who is the Earl of Carlisle?
In which Caribbean island was an assembly first established in 1639, making it one of the earliest in the West Indies?
What is Barbados?
Which British colony in Africa was granted independence in 1957, earlier than Britain had originally planned?
What is Ghana?
In what year did the French Caribbean abolish slavery, granting freed slaves full political rights and universal adult male suffrage?
What is 1848?
Which act, passed in 1871, created the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands and combined territories like Antigua, Dominica, and Montserrat under a single governance structure?
What is the Leeward Islands Act?
This term describes the island pride and isolationism that grew stronger among British Caribbean colonies over time. Also means to lack interest in cultures, or ideas outside one's own experience
What is insularity?
In St. Kitts during 1850, fewer than what percentage of the population was eligible to vote due to property and education qualifications?
What is one percent?
What was the name of the 1960 UN resolution that condemned colonialism and demanded immediate transfer of power to colonial peoples?
What is the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples?
What policy, rooted in the belief in the superiority of French culture, aimed to make all citizens in the French empire adopt French customs, language, and identity?
What is assimilation?
In the nineteenth century, this smaller Leeward Island often accused its neighboring island, St. Kitts, of tyrannizing it within their shared colonial administration.
What is Nevis?
Communication by this mode of transport was critical to uniting the geographically spread-out Leeward Islands under a single administration in the seventeenth century.
What is sailing ship?
Which British Act of 1838, aimed at regulating colonial prisons, caused the Jamaican Assembly to refuse cooperation and led to its dissolution?
What is the West Indian Prisons Act?
In what year did Jamaica and Trinidad both gain independence from Britain?
What is 1962?
During World War II, the French Caribbean initially pledged allegiance to which French government before switching to the Free French under de Gaulle in 1943?
What is the Vichy Government?
This General Assembly, formed in 1674, consisted of representatives from Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts but ceased meeting regularly after 1711.
What is the General Assembly of the Leeward Islands?
This British Caribbean federation, created for administrative ease in 1871, struggled with local unpopularity due to perceived loss of island independence.
What is the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands?
Who was the governor sent to Jamaica in the 1850s who managed to temporarily save the Jamaican Assembly through a constitutional amendment in 1856?
Who is Sir Henry Barkly?
Which country, despite being heavily reliant on famine relief and having only 21 kilometers of paved roads, proved poverty was no obstacle to independence in 1966?
What is Botswana?
What was the final political change in 1946 that made Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana fully integrated into France as overseas departments?
What is the adoption of departmental status?
In the early colonial era, this Caribbean island provided assistance to the Leewards during the Second Dutch War but was accused of hindering their development afterward.
What is Barbados?
This island group, first joined under Governor Lord Willoughby in 1660, stretched approximately 240 kilometers north to south and 160 kilometers east to west.
What are the Leeward Islands?