Week of Sept. 2-5, 2k25

Colonial Slavery Quiz Friday Sept. 5 

Colonial & American Slavery Unit

1. What is slavery? (Define it and explain what it means)
2. What European nation introduced “race-based” slavery in the 1400s? Why/how did they do this?
3. Why were Africans specifically chosen to be slaves? What did some Africans do to help Europeans with the slave trade?
4. What is mercantilism?
5. What was the name of the route slaves endured from Africa to the West Indies/North America? Explain this in significant detail. How did those aboard the ship dehumanize the Africans aboard the ship?
6. Approximately how long did it take for ships to sail from Africa to North America?
7. What was the difference between a “loose” and “tight” packer? What were the benefits of both methods? Which method do you think was more effective/profitable?
8. Approximately how many Africans were torn from their homelands and sold into slavery? Why don’t we know the exact number? Where did most slaves end up in the Americas?
9. The first Africans were brought to which colony?
10. What were some of the jobs of slaves (what did they do) in the American colonies? What types of jobs are these? Do they have anything in common with each other?
11. Why do you think slaves revolted? How do you think they revolted? Why do you think revolts would/would not be successful?
12. Opinion: What do you think was the hardest thing Africans struggled with?
13. Who was Nat Turner, and how did he change the history of American slavery?
14. What impact/effects do you think slavery had on America until it was outlawed in 1865? (opinionated
15. What was the most important crop grown in the colonies/West Indies that demanded the most slave labor? Why was this the case?
16. (opinionated) What do you think were the biggest contributions & impact of slave labor in the colonies & United States?
17. How did all of the colonies/nations benefit from slave labor? (Gotta think…Not easy)

Atlantic Slave Trade video

Middle Passage video

Slave Auction video

Slave Rebellion video

Nat Turner video

Nat Turner - Birth of a Nation trailer

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HW Assignment due Monday, Sept. 8

We're now entering the Road to the American Revolution unit, which culminates with the Second Continental Congress on Oct. 1, Huzzah!  Please read through the American Revolution doc & answer the following Q's by Monday, Sept. 8

1. Are you surprised that life in the colonies was better than those living back in England?  Why do you think this? (opinionated)
2. By 1750, where did most colonists live?  Why do you think the colonists lived so close to the ocean?
3. In the 1750s, What were four things the colonists had in common?  Try to put the answers in your own words.
4. Watch the French & Indian War BrainPop  CLICK ME TO WATCH THE BRAINPOP and answer the following Q:  What nations fought in the war & what were they fighting over?
5. During the war, Benjamin Franklin had an idea & what was that idea? What was the Albany Plan of Union & did it work?...Be ready to look at the Join, or Die flag.
6. The Proclamation of 1763 was similar to a president writing an executive order.  What was the proclamation made by King George III after the French & Indian War?
7. How did the British government decide to pay for the French & Indian war debt & why did they the feel this was the best way for paying the war debt?