`Jan Rogozinski, A Brief History of the Caribbean
Chapter 6: Settlement of the Lesser Antilles
Be able to identify the following persons, places, and terms in 25 words or less.
Mercantilism
Windward Islands
Leeward Islands
Saint Kitts
Thomas Warner
Navigation Acts
Cavaliers vs. Roundheads
Compagnie des Iles d’Amerique
Morne des Sauteurs
Richlieu and Colbert
Compagnie des Indes Occidentales
Know the following facts and figures
The shift in the size and racial composition of the population of Barbados between the 1630’s and the 1680’s, and the main cause of the transformation.
The two major mechanical inventions, introduced by the Dutch, that transformed sugar production.
The main sugar producing island during the first 50 years of the sugar boom, and the main source of labor in the beginning.
The different mortality rates of white indentured servants and African slaves on the British islands.
The five major British settlements in the Lesser Antilles..
The two major volcanoes in the Caribbean, and the islands on which they are found.
The total number of islands and cays in the Virgin Islands
Know the following dates:
Founding of French pirate camps in Tortuga and Hispaniola
Founding of Virginia as a tobacco growing colony
Beginning of the Thirty Years War
Establishment of first British tobacco settlement in Caribbean: St. Kitts
French settlers arrive in St. Kitts.
British and Dutch occupy different parts of St. Croix
Settlment of Barbados as tobacco colony.
Emigrants from St. Kitts settle Nevis
French government plants their flag on Tortuga
Emigrants from St. Kitts settle Montserrat and Antigua
French settlers from St. Kitts go to Martinique and Guadeloupe
War between Caribs and French settlers
British on St. Croix drive out the Dutch that were there
End of the Thirty Years War
Establishment of Commonwealth gov. under Oliver Cromwell
Spanish drive out British from St. Croix.
French governor of St. Kitts expel Spanish. Give S.C. to Knights of Malta
Passage of paralyzing Navigation Act in England
Restoration of British monarchy
Peace between French and Caribs, who get Dominica and St. Vincent
Rule of Louix XIV and Colbert begins, with French mercantilism
French establish a monopolistic trading company for Antilles
French and Dutch go to war against British
France eliminates company rule and islands become provinces of France
French abandon island and Knights of Malta reclaim it
Knights of Malta sell St. Croix to Danish, who were on St. Thomas.
Be able to answer briefly the following questions
When and why did the French and British turn from piracy to settlement? What caused a crash in the tobacco market, and what alternative entered the Caribbean?
Why was it easier for the British and French to settle the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles than the southern?
What was the first British settlement? Who was on the island? What relation emerged between the British and the French?
How is Barbados geographically and militarily different from the other islands?
What are the similarities and differences between indentured servants and slaves.
What was the role of the Irish in this indentured servant economy?
Why did indentured servants prefer North America to the West Indies?
What island was the political capital of the French during the first four decades of their settlements in the Caribbean?
What were the relations between French and Caribs in the Lesser Antilles?
Where did the Virgin Islands get their names from?
What are the three largest of the Virgin islands?