WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule. Jamaica was granted independence in 1962.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jamaica was settled by the Spanish in 1510 and the indigenous Taino people were forced into slavery and eventually exterminated. In the early years of the 16th century the practice of importing slaves from West Africa to work in Jamaica began.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British seized Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655. The island remained a colony of Britain until 1962, after a decadeslong independence movement by Jamaican leaders.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 19 July 1962, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Jamaica Independence Act, granting independence as of 6 August with The Queen as Head of State. On that day, the Union Jack was ceremonially lowered and replaced by the Jamaican flag throughout the country.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jamaica was inhabited by Native American people, known as Tainos, at the point when Christopher Columbus made landfall there in 1494. It remained a Spanish colony until seized by the English in 1655.