Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.2: Colonialism and the system of slavery in the Americas (c.1492–1830) Questions
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Choose the forced-labour system, used mainly on Indigenous communities in Spanish silver mines, that this micro-topic names as distinct from plantation slavery.
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The 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina was led by an enslaved man known as:
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Choose the year given as when Britain abolished its own transatlantic slave trade.
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In which year did Hernán Cortés capture the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, after landing in Mexico in 1519 with around 500 soldiers and Tlaxcalan allies?
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Which reform, pushed by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, attempted to restrict abuses under the encomienda system?
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What role did La Malinche (Malintzin) play during Cortés's conquest of Mexico?
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Choose the colony described in this micro-topic as producing more sugar and coffee than anywhere else in the world by the 1780s.
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Which of the following was the most common form of resistance to slavery in the Americas?
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What was distinctive about the outcome of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) compared with other slave uprisings in the Americas?
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Choose the factor that this micro-topic identifies as the underlying economic driver behind the growth of the transatlantic slave system.
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The maroon community of Palmares in Brazil, associated with the leader Zumbi, was ultimately:
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Which Spanish conquistador captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca in 1532–33?
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What was the significance of the Brookes ship diagram, published in 1788?
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Choose the European power that, according to this micro-topic, transported the largest overall total of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
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Discuss the view that the Columbian Exchange brought overwhelmingly negative consequences for the peoples and societies of the Americas.
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Discuss the view that the economic and political impact of the transatlantic slave system on colonial societies was ultimately more significant than its social and cultural impact.
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Evaluate the claim that La Malinche (Malintzin) should be understood primarily as a powerless victim of the Spanish conquest of Mexico rather than as an active historical agent.
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Evaluate the claim that the experiences of enslaved women under the transatlantic slave system were fundamentally different from those of enslaved men.
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Evaluate the claim that escape and the formation of maroon communities were a more effective form of resistance to slavery than organised rebellion in the Americas before 1830.
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