Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.5: Slavery and the New World (1500–1800) Questions
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Choose the correct answer: By the 1780s, which French colony alone produced around 40% of the sugar and 60% of the coffee consumed in Europe?
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Choose the correct answer: What was the key reason European indentured servants could not meet the permanent labour needs of Spanish and Portuguese American colonies?
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What legislative measure did South Carolina pass in 1740 directly in response to a major slave rebellion?
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Choose the correct answer: According to a 1662 Virginia law, what determined whether a child born in the colony was enslaved or free?
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Choose the correct answer: Which system was used by Spain to license other countries or companies to supply enslaved Africans to its American colonies?
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Which South Carolina rebellion of September 1739 was led by a man named Jemmy and aimed to reach Spanish Florida?
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Choose the correct answer: In 1713, which country gained the asiento as a result of the Treaty of Utrecht?
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Which Quaker figure published Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754) while touring the colonies urging fellow Quakers to free their slaves?
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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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Which document, produced in 1688, is considered the first written protest against slavery in British North America?
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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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What term describes communities formed by enslaved people who permanently escaped and settled in remote areas of Brazil?
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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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