Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence — Drills · Grade 9 Social Studies
Chapter: Knowledge, Labor & the World Around 1750What these drills covers
By the end of Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence you should be able to:
- I can explain demand and institutions.
- I can explain a historical connection using relevant evidence and qualify the conclusion.
4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.
Vocabulary used: context, evidence, interpretation, chattel slavery, maroon community.
Problem 1
Answer and explanation
Explain the particular system’s legal status, inheritance, compulsion, and enforcement. Consumer demand is a contributing condition, not a substitute for identifying the people and institutions organizing violence and profit. Economic explanation does not excuse coercion.
Problem 2
Answer and explanation
Name the documented actor and transaction rather than saying Africa sold its people as though a continent made one decision. A participant’s involvement does not represent every community or remove responsibility from other organizers and buyers.
Problem 3
Answer and explanation
A numerical record cannot represent every captive’s identity, experience, or resistance. Check dates, missingness, definitions, and routes, then combine data with appropriate personal and institutional evidence. Do not turn suffering into a simulation or require learners to reenact captivity.
Problem 4
Answer and explanation
Agency does not mean captives had free choices or that resistance always succeeded. Name the action and constraint. A failure recorded by an authority can still document resistance, while unrecorded everyday actions may be difficult to reconstruct.