Slavery and the Empire

Watch the film "Black in Latin America" and discuss the parallels between the Slavery in the British Colonies and Slavery in the Spanish Colonies.  Then compare anti slavery movements in Mexico and the United States.  Later discuss how the remnants of slavery still exist today. Finally explain some interesting aspects of music and art that was influenced by the African presence in Latin America. Post a blog about this.

Then watch the film "Africans In America: The Terrible Transformation" add notes to each of the Colonies on the topic of slavery.

FRQ Questions for British Colonies British Colonies

DIRECTIONS

Create an exhibition selecting one of the following essay questions as a guide for the objective of your exhibition.  You are required to focus on the particular topic assigned to you and include an APPARTS analysis of a primary source document you have selected.  

ECONOMIC

• Analyze the role of trans-Atlantic trade and Great Britain’s mercantilist policies in the economic development of the British North American colonies in the period from 1650 to 1750.

• Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750.

War & Rebellion

• In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-63) alter the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?

• Analyze the effect of the French and Indian War and its after math on the relationship between Great Britain and the British colonies. Confine your response to the period from 1754 to 1776.

• Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances. Analyze the causes and significance of TWO of the following:

March of the Paxton Boys

Regulator movement

Shays’ Rebellion

Whiskey Rebellion

• Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783.

• The French and Indian War (1754-1763) altered the relationship between Britain and its North American colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following in the period between 1763 and 1775.

Land acquisition

Politics

Economics

• Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Pueblo Revolt (1680)

Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)

Stono Rebellion (1739)

Slavery

• Analyze the origins and development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies in the period 1607 to 1776.

• Use TWO of the following categories to analyze the ways in which African Americans created a distinctive culture in slavery.

Family
Music
Oral traditions Religions

Forms of Government & Politics

• Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.

• Compare and contrast the British, French, and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763.