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11.14 Labor Systems, Slavery, and Racial Hierarchy Worksheet

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Labor Systems, Slavery, and Racial Hierarchy: Identify the option that best explains the development of indentured servitude, chattel slavery, plantation economies, slave codes, and racialized social systems in colonial America. Aligned to Broad national and selected state U.S. History alignment: C3 Framework; CCSS Literacy in History/Social Studies 11-12; AP U.S. History; NAEP U.S. History; selected CA, NY, MA, FL, and TX frameworks where applicable. 11.14 - Labor Systems, Slavery, and Racial Hierarchy: Identify the option that best explains the development of indentured servitude, chattel slavery, plantation economies, slave codes, and racialized social systems in colonial America. Standards references: C3 D2.His.4-6,14-16.9-12; C3 D2.Eco.1-3.9-12; CCSS RH.11-12.1-3; APUSH Period 2; NAEP Themes 2-3; NY 11.1.

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery
Use the accompanying long timeline on labor systems and racial hierarchy. Which periodization statement is best supported?
AThe timeline shows that racial slavery ended before plantation economies developed.
BThe timeline proves every colony followed the same path at the same speed.
CThe timeline begins with industrial wage labor replacing all coerced labor.
DFrom the early 1600s to 1754, colonial labor systems moved toward more legally entrenched racial slavery while resistance and regional variation continued.
Solution & Explanation:The timeline emphasizes change over time: labor demand, legal codification, resistance, and the persistence of regional differences before 1754.
Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery
A historian warns against using one South Carolina plantation record to describe all British colonies. What reasoning skill is the historian emphasizing?
AIgnoring geography because all colonies had identical economies.
BAssuming one source can prove every claim about colonial society.
CRecognizing regional variation and avoiding overgeneralization from a single source.
DRejecting all plantation records as useless for labor history.
Solution & Explanation:A single source can be valuable, but historians must consider region, context, and limits before generalizing.
Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery
A set of original source summaries includes a runaway notice, a plantation ledger, a slave code, and a ship manifest. Which research question could these sources best answer together?
AWhich twentieth-century immigration law changed national origins quotas?
BHow did law, commerce, forced migration, and resistance interact within colonial slavery?
CHow did Cold War alliances divide Europe after World War II?
DWhy did railroads transform industrial cities after 1865?
Solution & Explanation:The sources address different parts of colonial slavery: law, trade, forced migration, plantation accounting, and resistance. Together they support a systems-level question.

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