Slavery, Indentured Service & Colonial Resistance — Drills · Grade 7 Social Studies
Chapter: Colonial Worlds & New YorkWhat these drills covers
By the end of Slavery, Indentured Service & Colonial Resistance you should be able to:
- I can explain how indentured servitude differed from slavery, and how the two overlapped early on.
- I can name laws that built hereditary racial slavery and say what each one changed.
- I can describe resistance beyond revolt, and why it is harder to see in the sources.
4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.
Vocabulary used: context, primary source, interpretation, indenture, hereditary slavery.
Problem 1
Answer and explanation
The forced Atlantic transportation of enslaved Africans; its coercion distinguishes it from voluntary migration.
Problem 2
Answer and explanation
Petitions, escape records read critically, testimony, community institutions, material traces, and other dated independent records can help establish action and limits.
Problem 3
Answer and explanation
Their legal status, duration, hereditary conditions, rights, and control differed. Harsh treatment can exist under different institutions without making those institutions the same.
Problem 4
Answer and explanation
No. Survival strategies, resistance, and constraints varied, and the surviving record may omit actions. Absence of one form of resistance does not establish consent.