Bahamas Exam Questions With
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when and who discovered bahamas CORRECT ANSWERS 1492, columbus
bahamas CORRECT ANSWERS archipelago of some 700 islands
indigenous population CORRECT ANSWERS Lucayan Arawak Indians
Settlements had to be small CORRECT ANSWERS very few resources
Bahamas were totally unattractive to the Crown CORRECT ANSWERS lack of natural
resources
resource that the Crown could put to use CORRECT ANSWERS people
Lucayan Arawaks were moved from Hispaniola to CORRECT ANSWERS man the pearl
beds just off the coast of Colombia, excellent swimmers
1530 CORRECT ANSWERS bahamas are depopulated
-dying of European disease
-underpopulated
-ships bringing people into Hispaniola and making them slaves
-many of them were fishing for pearls in shark infested waters because they were
excellent swimmers
-20-40k people In the Bahamas were relocated
1630s-1680s CORRECT ANSWERS symbiotic relationship between pirates and locals
1720s CORRECT ANSWERS effective givernor
-piracy is over
1770s CORRECT ANSWERS revolutionary war
sponge CORRECT ANSWERS became an exporter in sponges but it died because
there was a blite and all the sponges died(boom)
1860s CORRECT ANSWERS civil war
1910-1920s CORRECT ANSWERS (boom)prohibition
1940s CORRECT ANSWERS after ww II
-tourism grew
-tourism sustains growth
, 1973 CORRECT ANSWERS Bahamas finally secured independence from England
population of bahamas now CORRECT ANSWERS 300, 000 people
booms CORRECT ANSWERS pirates, revolutionary war, sponging, civil war,
prohibition, tourism
demographic moment CORRECT ANSWERS • a total of 6,000-8,000 people showed up
and each family brought 10-100 slaves with them. So the makings of the modern
Bahamas were in place by about 1785.
1785 CORRECT ANSWERS makings of the modern Bahamas, demographic increase
ethnicity of people in bahamas now CORRECT ANSWERS 90% claim African heritage
and the remaing 10% hail from various locations around Europe
1975 CORRECT ANSWERS 25% in nassaua 75% in the remaining islands
this inverts over the course of the 20th century
1975: 75% in nassausa and 35% in the remaining islands
-due to tourism
major influence on Bahamian music CORRECT ANSWERS Church songs, Regional
folk songs and popular songs
antecedent for modern Bahamian music is CORRECT ANSWERS rake-n-scrape
drumming, performed on goombay drums and saws (for the scraping).
goombay drums CORRECT ANSWERS nail kegs with goat skin head
the influence that places like Cuba exerted on Bahamian musical life. CORRECT
ANSWERS The incorporation of a clave
instruments for goombay music CORRECT ANSWERS goat skin drum, clave, saw,
accordion
migration out of what were called the Family Islands toward Nassau and Freeport led to
CORRECT ANSWERS he decline of these practices and rake-n-
scrape had to survive on its musical and entertainment value alone
what did nightclubs do to ggombay? CORRECT ANSWERS The name goombay was
appropriated by nightclub musicians in Nassau during the 1940s and 50s, but the music
was no longer the same as it had been in the 19th century
Correct Answers Already Passed!!
when and who discovered bahamas CORRECT ANSWERS 1492, columbus
bahamas CORRECT ANSWERS archipelago of some 700 islands
indigenous population CORRECT ANSWERS Lucayan Arawak Indians
Settlements had to be small CORRECT ANSWERS very few resources
Bahamas were totally unattractive to the Crown CORRECT ANSWERS lack of natural
resources
resource that the Crown could put to use CORRECT ANSWERS people
Lucayan Arawaks were moved from Hispaniola to CORRECT ANSWERS man the pearl
beds just off the coast of Colombia, excellent swimmers
1530 CORRECT ANSWERS bahamas are depopulated
-dying of European disease
-underpopulated
-ships bringing people into Hispaniola and making them slaves
-many of them were fishing for pearls in shark infested waters because they were
excellent swimmers
-20-40k people In the Bahamas were relocated
1630s-1680s CORRECT ANSWERS symbiotic relationship between pirates and locals
1720s CORRECT ANSWERS effective givernor
-piracy is over
1770s CORRECT ANSWERS revolutionary war
sponge CORRECT ANSWERS became an exporter in sponges but it died because
there was a blite and all the sponges died(boom)
1860s CORRECT ANSWERS civil war
1910-1920s CORRECT ANSWERS (boom)prohibition
1940s CORRECT ANSWERS after ww II
-tourism grew
-tourism sustains growth
, 1973 CORRECT ANSWERS Bahamas finally secured independence from England
population of bahamas now CORRECT ANSWERS 300, 000 people
booms CORRECT ANSWERS pirates, revolutionary war, sponging, civil war,
prohibition, tourism
demographic moment CORRECT ANSWERS • a total of 6,000-8,000 people showed up
and each family brought 10-100 slaves with them. So the makings of the modern
Bahamas were in place by about 1785.
1785 CORRECT ANSWERS makings of the modern Bahamas, demographic increase
ethnicity of people in bahamas now CORRECT ANSWERS 90% claim African heritage
and the remaing 10% hail from various locations around Europe
1975 CORRECT ANSWERS 25% in nassaua 75% in the remaining islands
this inverts over the course of the 20th century
1975: 75% in nassausa and 35% in the remaining islands
-due to tourism
major influence on Bahamian music CORRECT ANSWERS Church songs, Regional
folk songs and popular songs
antecedent for modern Bahamian music is CORRECT ANSWERS rake-n-scrape
drumming, performed on goombay drums and saws (for the scraping).
goombay drums CORRECT ANSWERS nail kegs with goat skin head
the influence that places like Cuba exerted on Bahamian musical life. CORRECT
ANSWERS The incorporation of a clave
instruments for goombay music CORRECT ANSWERS goat skin drum, clave, saw,
accordion
migration out of what were called the Family Islands toward Nassau and Freeport led to
CORRECT ANSWERS he decline of these practices and rake-n-
scrape had to survive on its musical and entertainment value alone
what did nightclubs do to ggombay? CORRECT ANSWERS The name goombay was
appropriated by nightclub musicians in Nassau during the 1940s and 50s, but the music
was no longer the same as it had been in the 19th century
