Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.5: Slavery and the New World (1500–1800) Questions
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Which document, produced in 1688, is considered the first written protest against slavery in British North America?
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Evaluate the importance of economic factors, compared with other factors, in explaining the growth of the transatlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1750.
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Evaluate the significance of the Stono Rebellion (1739) for the development of slave societies in the Americas.
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Discuss the view that everyday, low-level resistance was as important as open rebellion in enslaved people's struggle against slavery in the Americas.
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Examine the role of religious belief in shaping early opposition to slavery in the British colonies of the Americas before 1800.
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Examine the reasons for the failure of alternative labour sources, such as indigenous labour and European indentured servants, in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas before 1600.
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Evaluate the claim that the transfer of the asiento to Britain in 1713 was the single most significant turning point in the development of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Discuss the view that racial ideology was invented purely to serve economic interests in the colonial slave societies of the Americas.
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Compare and contrast the Stono Rebellion (1739) in South Carolina with the 1733 St John rebellion in the Danish Virgin Islands as examples of organized slave revolt in the Americas.
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To what extent did the sugar economy shape the scale and character of African slavery in the Americas up to 1750?
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Evaluate the claim that enslaved Africans in the Americas before 1800 should be seen primarily as active agents of resistance rather than passive victims of slavery.
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Examine the impact of the Stono Rebellion (1739) on colonial legislation in the Americas.
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Discuss the successes and limitations of enslaved people's resistance to slavery in the Americas before 1800.
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To what extent was economic profit the most important reason for the racial hierarchies that developed in colonial slave societies?
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Compare and contrast the social impact of slavery in two of the following colonial societies: Brazil (Portuguese) and Saint-Domingue (French).
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Analyse the impact of the triangular trade on the economies of Europe, West Africa and the Americas between 1600 and 1750.
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To what extent was fear of further rebellion the main reason for the tightening of slave codes in the British colonies of the Americas by 1740?
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Examine the reasons why colonial powers turned to enslaved African labour in the Americas in the period 1500 to 1700.
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Discuss the significance of the asiento system in shaping the transatlantic slave trade between 1600 and 1750.
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Examine the causes of slave resistance in the Americas between 1500 and 1800.
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