Florida SS.68.AA.1

SS.68.AA.1 is a Florida social studies standard. These are the benchmarks under it.

• SS.68.AA.1.1

  Identify Afro-Eurasian trade routes and methods prior to the development of the Atlantic slave trade.

• SS.68.AA.1.2

  Describe the contact of European explorers with systematic slave trading in Africa.

• SS.68.AA.1.3

  Examine the evolution of the labor force in the use of indentured servitude contracts.

• SS.68.AA.1.4

  Describe the history and evolution of slave codes.

• SS.68.AA.1.5

  Analyze slave revolts that happened in early colonial America and how political leaders reacted (e.g., 1712 revolt in New York City, Stono Rebellion [1739]).

• SS.68.AA.1.6

  Examine the service and sacrifice of African patriots during the Revolutionary Era (e.g., Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, James Armistead Lafayette, 1st Rhode Isl...

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how colonial demand for labor and profit expanded the forced transport of Africans. They trace major routes and describe effects on enslaved people, African societies, colonial economies, and racial laws.

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What Mastery Looks Like

Students use maps, ship records, laws, and firsthand accounts to connect causes, events, and effects. They distinguish indentured servitude from hereditary chattel slavery and support claims with evidence.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may treat the trade as voluntary migration or assume every voyage followed one fixed triangular route. They may confuse indentured servitude with hereditary chattel slavery. They may focus only on colonial profits and miss death, family separation, resistance, and harm to African societies.

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How to Assess It

Give students a route map and a short ship record. Ask them to identify one cause, one stage of transport, and one consequence, citing both sources.

1. 01

   Give pairs route cards and yarn to build an Atlantic map, then label where forced transport and colonial sales occurred.

2. 02

   Write a paragraph answering: How did colonial labor demands shape the trade, and who bore its human costs?

3. 03

   Run a cause, route, consequence card-sort race, then require teams to defend two placements with evidence.

4. 04

   Compare a colonial port map with a current population map, then discuss how forced migration shaped language, food, music, and communities.

• SS.5.A.4.6

  Describe the introduction, impact, and role of slavery in the colonies.

• SS.8.A.2.4

  Identify the impact of key colonial figures on the economic, political, and social development of the colonies.

• SS.8.A.2

  Examine the causes, course, and consequences of British settlement in the American colonies.

• SS.8.A.3.6

  Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution.