Cotton, Domestic Slave Trade & Enslaved People’s Agency — Drills · Grade 7 Social Studies
Chapter: Expansion, Slavery & ReformWhat these drills covers
By the end of Cotton, Domestic Slave Trade & Enslaved People’s Agency you should be able to:
- I can explain how the cotton gin expanded slavery instead of ending it.
- I can describe the domestic slave trade and its scale.
- I can give examples of everyday resistance and explain why it was more common than revolt.
4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.
Vocabulary used: context, primary source, interpretation, domestic slave trade, agency.
Problem 1
Answer and explanation
Importation crosses the relevant national boundary from abroad; domestic sale takes place within it. A law restricting one need not abolish the other.
Problem 2
Answer and explanation
Testimony, family and community records, petitions, material traces, and independent accounts can address perspectives omitted from owners’ bookkeeping.
Problem 3
Answer and explanation
Its raw material and commercial relationships can depend on coerced production. Geographic distance does not erase a supply-chain connection.
Problem 4
Answer and explanation
It can reveal ownership claims or recorded transactions while omitting people’s own perspectives, relationships, resistance, and many aspects of life.