This political state collapsed after the “little eight” struggled to effectively band together following the loss of major economic powers, one of whose leaders noted “one from ten leaves nought.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short-lived political union that ended in 1962 after countries led by Alexander Bustamante and Eric Williams withdrew.
ANSWER: West Indies Federation [or Federation of the West Indies; or West Indian Federation; prompt on West Indies]
[10h] This thinker tried to push the “little eight” into a federation in the tract “Agony of the Eight.” This thinker’s ideas in a book on the “birth of a workers’ movement” in the West Indies have been cited as the earliest blueprint for Caribbean reparations.
ANSWER: W. Arthur Lewis [or Sir William Arthur Lewis]
[10e] Lewis’s Labour in the West Indies details the destruction of Trinidad’s Red House in 1903 riots over this resource. Jamaica’s town of Falmouth was the first in the Western Hemisphere to supply this resource through pipes, which they did using a large “Persian” wheel.
ANSWER: freshwater [accept Water Riots; accept Persian water wheel]
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