How different was decolonisation?

How different was decolonisation?

warning

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will bring together our learning on decolonisation tracing the similarities and differences between the experiences of Jamaica, Ghana and Ireland.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

5 Questions

Q1.
In his early years Alexander Bustamante was a?
Dentist
Journalist
Socialist
Correct answer: Trade Unionist
Q2.
What swept across the island in 1938?
A wave of protests for independence
A wave of protests for women's rights
Correct answer: A wave of strikes and protests against poverty and low wages
Q3.
Norman Manley Sr led which party?
Jamaica Labour Party
Correct answer: People's National Party
Q4.
Alexander Bustamante led which party?
Correct answer: Jamaica Labour Party
Jamaica Lawyer Party
Jamaica Loyalist Party
Q5.
What happened to Jamaica in 1962?
It became a British Dominion.
Correct answer: It became officially independent.

5 Questions

Q1.
The first colony to achieve independence was?
Ghana
Correct answer: Ireland
Jamaica
Q2.
Violence was central to independence in?
Ghana
Correct answer: Ireland
Jamaica
Q3.
Before independence Ghana was called?
The Ghana Coast Colony
Correct answer: The Gold Coast Colony
Q4.
Who became Jamaica's first Prime Minister?
Correct answer: Alexander Bustamante
Kwame Nkrumah
Norman Manley
Q5.
What happened to Kwame Nkrumah in 1966?
He became President.
Correct answer: He was overthrown.

Lesson appears in

UnitHistory / Who 'decolonised' in the twentieth century?

History