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Colonial Economies, Labor, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-OK-SS

8 lessons

Goal

Compare regional colonial economies, understand the labor systems of indentured servitude and slavery, and evaluate the impacts of the triangular trade.

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  5. The Triangular Trade Routes and Global CommerceYou are here
  6. The Middle Passage and the Transatlantic Slave TradeNot started yet
  7. Enslaved and Free Africans in Colonial AmericaNot started yet
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us-ut5.2.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Explain how the actions of key individuals and groups influenced the outcome of the American Revolution (for example, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Mercy Warren, Alexander Hamilton, King George III, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, Marquis De Lafayette, Phillis Wheatley).