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- Lucayan
- The Taíno-speaking indigenous people of the Bahamas, who migrated from the Greater Antilles and lived in chiefdoms led by a cacique before European contact.
- Cacique
- A hereditary chief in Lucayan and Taíno society who governed villages, received tribute and led ceremonies and warfare.
- Zemi
- A carved stone, wood or bone object representing an ancestral or nature spirit in Lucayan and Taíno religion, kept in shrines and consulted in rituals.
- Conuco
- A raised mound of earth used by Lucayans to grow cassava, maize and other crops, a technique inherited from South American Arawak farming.
- Guanahani
- The Lucayan name for the island where Columbus made landfall on 12 October 1492, later renamed San Salvador by the Spanish.
- Eleutheran Adventurers
- English settlers led by William Sayle who arrived from Bermuda in 1648 and founded the first permanent European settlement in the Bahamas on Eleuthera.
- Lords Proprietors
- The Carolina proprietors granted the Bahamas by Charles II in 1670; they appointed governors but invested little in the colony's defense.
- Woodes Rogers
- The first royal governor of the Bahamas, appointed in 1717, who suppressed piracy, pardoned repentant pirates and restored royal authority in Nassau.
- Cotton boom
- A brief 1780s expansion of cotton planting on Bahamian islands by Loyalist settlers, which collapsed by about 1800 due to soil exhaustion and pests.
- Salt raking
- The harvesting of salt from shallow salinas, especially on Inagua and Exuma, using enslaved and later free labor; a major Bahamian export industry.
- Liberated Africans
- Africans freed from slave ships by the Royal Navy after 1807 and settled in the Bahamas, forming communities such as Carmichael and Gambier.
- Slavery Abolition Act 1833
- The British law that abolished slavery in most colonies effective 1 August 1834, providing £20 million compensation to owners but none to the enslaved.
- Apprenticeship
- A transitional system (1834-1838) in which former slaves worked unpaid for their former owners; ended early in the Bahamas in 1838.
- William Colebrooke
- The Bahamian governor who ended apprenticeship early in 1838 and reformed the courts and franchise after emancipation.
- Emancipation Day
- The annual Bahamian holiday on the first Monday in August commemorating the 1834 abolition of slavery and the 1838 end of apprenticeship.
- House of Assembly
- The elected lower house of the Bahamian legislature, established in 1729 and one of the oldest continuous legislatures in the Americas.
- Crown Colony
- A British colony governed directly by the Crown through an appointed governor, the status of the Bahamas from 1718 until internal self-government in 1964.
- 1964 constitution
- The constitutional change granting the Bahamas internal self-government with a premier and cabinet, while Britain retained defense and foreign affairs.
- Duke of Windsor
- The former Edward VIII, who served as Bahamian governor in 1940-1945 during labor unrest and the 1942 Burma Road riots.
- Wrecking
- The salvage of cargo and vessels from ships grounded on Bahamian reefs; a major industry until lighthouses and steamships reduced shipwrecks.
- Sponge industry
- Bahamian sponge harvesting, centered on Andros and Exuma, which peaked in the late 19th century and collapsed after a 1938 blight.
- Prohibition
- The 1920-1933 US ban on alcohol, which made Nassau a transshipment point for liquor and boosted the Bahamian economy.
- Bahamas Tourist Board
- The government body established in the 1940s-1950s to promote tourism, which helped make the industry the mainstay of the economy.
- Progressive Liberal Party
- The Bahamian political party founded in 1953, drawing on the black majority and labor unions, which led the country to majority rule and independence.
- United Bahamian Party
- The party of the white merchant elite that dominated Bahamian politics in the 1950s and early 1960s until the 1967 election.
- Majority Rule Day
- 10 January, commemorating the 1967 election when the PLP under Lynden Pindling took office, ending white minority political dominance.
- 1958 general strike
- A labor action in Nassau that united workers and strengthened the PLP's alliance with the trade union movement.
- Lynden Pindling
- Leader of the PLP, premier from 1967 and first prime minister of independent Bahamas, serving from 1973 to 1992.
- Free National Movement
- The Bahamian party formed in 1971, which won the 1992 election under Hubert Ingraham and ended 25 years of PLP rule.
- 10 July 1973
- The date the Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm with a parliamentary system and a governor-general representing the monarch.
- Governor-General
- The monarch's representative in independent Bahamas, appointed on the advice of the prime minister and performing ceremonial and constitutional duties.
- CARICOM
- The Caribbean Community, which the Bahamas joined in 1983, promoting regional economic cooperation and coordination of foreign policy.