Test 1

Question 0

What did the period of dehumanizations ensure for the Afro-Caribbean population?

Answer 0

It ensured the permanency of exclusion, powerlessness and poverty for the foreseeable future.

Question 1

What are the three stages of Afro-Caribbean history?

Answer 1

1. Dehumanization & Disenfranchisement (1600-1838)
2. Emancipation (1838-1960)
3. Independence (1960+)

Question 2

What was necessary for Africans to obtain a better life?

Answer 2

It has become necessary for many to migrate in search of a better life.

Question 3

What differentiated the second period from the first?

Answer 3

An absence of physical abuse, not social or economic exploitation

Question 4

What remained the same between the second periond and the first?

Answer 4

1. Social and economic exploitation OR
2. Societies dominated by Euro political elites, monopolized by Euro business classes, and stratified by a rank-ordered color continuum.

Question 5

In what specific ways was colonial society remarkable? (4 ways)

Answer 5

Mostly: Mistreatment of Africans as non-persons, use and abuse of African labor, promotion of newcomers socially above the African masses, elevation of the “master class” of Europeans above everyone else

Question 6

What marked the entire period of colonialism?

Answer 6

Pauperization, powerlessness, and economic despair.

Question 7

Until what time was political power reserved to Europeans?

Answer 7

Well into the mid-20th century.

Question 8

In what areas of life were Africans effectively shut out?

Answer 8

Education, business, and government

Question 9

How did the restlessness of Africans manifest itself as the 20th century unfolded?

Answer 9

Riots and Strikes

Question 10

From the perspective of African radicals, what would provide a chance to share equally?

Answer 10

Constitutional reform, political change

Question 11

What did the masses expect to come with independence?

Answer 11

Equality of opportunity from new laws and policies

Question 12

What revived sense consumed the masses with the coming of independence?

Answer 12

Black Pride

Question 13

Which leaders of the independence era gave the hope of representation?

Answer 13

Williams, Barrow, Burnham, Duvalier, Gairy

Question 14

What do the masses expect new laws and policies to provide?

Answer 14

Equality of opportunity. Specifically: jobs, housing, business opportunities, sharing of wealth.

Question 15

What (for the masses) was the greatest expectation of change from the new political order?

Answer 15

That economic opportunities would improve and expand

Question 16

For African masses, political power did not translate into what?

Answer 16

Economic Power

Question 17

What did the rising Afro-political elite seem happy to do?

Answer 17

To ally themselves with the Euro remnants of the colonial order acting in their own self-interest.

Question 18

In Granada & Haiti, what became a means to ensure the longevity of new elites?

Answer 18

Political repression

Question 19

What was the Afro-political elite not expected to do but did?

Answer 19

Form a class of their own, replicating the behavior and culture of their erstwhile masters

Question 20

Which group found a place of ascendance in the new societies?

Answer 20

Miscegenated Afro-Caucasian elites (mixed folks)

Question 21

(1) What were these movements of the mid 1900s about, and (2) what were the succeeding periods a demand for?

Answer 21

1. the Black Masses against White Dominance

2. Demands for Black Power (in majority Black societies)

Question 22

Which events provide evidence that post-colonial govt’s failed to produce for the African masses? (5 events)

Answer 22

1. The Rodney Riots (1968)
2. The Black Power Movement (1970)
3. The Grenada Revolution (1979)
4. The Rodney Assassination (1980)
5. The third Haitian Revolution (1986)

Question 23

What were the main ethnic groups in the Caribbean?

Answer 23

Caucasian (1500s)
Chinese (1920)
African (1550)
Indigenous
East Indian (mid-1800s)
Other (early 1900s)

Question 24

Name 3 English territories.

Answer 24

Any 3 of:

Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana, Grenada, Dominica, Belize

Question 25

Name 3 French territories.

Answer 25

Haiti, Martinique, Guadalupe, Saint Martin

Question 26

Name 3 Dutch territories.

Answer 26

Surinam, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, US Virgin Islands

Question 27

What was abolition?

Answer 27

End of the slave trade, 1808-1810

Question 28

Emancipation

Answer 28

End of slavery, 1838-1845

Question 29

What did Africans fight for during the World Wars?

Answer 29

Liberty, equality, and justice, of which they had none

Question 30

When were the revolutions for Jamaica, Trinidad, Grenada, and Haiti?

Answer 30

Jamaica - 1968
Trinidad - 1970
Grenada - 1979
Haiti - 1804
Haiti - 1956
Haiti - 1986