Florida SS.68.AA.1.5
The Standard
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]).
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify why enslaved people resisted, what occurred during each revolt, and what followed. They compare the events and explain how colonial leaders responded with punishment and tighter controls.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can build an accurate cause, event, and response chain for both revolts. They use specific evidence to explain how leaders strengthened racial control through laws and punishment.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the revolts as isolated violence rather than planned resistance to slavery. They often mix up the locations, dates, and details. Some assume official responses addressed grievances rather than increasing restrictions on enslaved people.
How to Assess It
- Give students an exit ticket labeled New York, 1712 and South Carolina, 1739. For each, list one cause, one rebel action, and one official response, then explain one shared pattern.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups cause, event, and response cards for both revolts, then have them arrange and defend two cause-and-effect chains.
Ask students to write: Did colonial leaders address the causes of resistance, or only tighten control? Support the claim with two details.
Run a sorting relay where teams place facts under New York, Stono, both, or neither, then correct errors using notes.
Map the Stono route on a current South Carolina map and identify how roads, rivers, and the Spanish Florida border shaped choices.
Keep exploring
Related Standards
- SS.5.A.5.1
Identify and explain significant events leading up to the American Revolution.
- SS.5.AA.1.1
Examine the life of African Americans in the colonial era.
- SS.5.CG.2.1
Discuss the political ideas of Patriots, Loyalists and other colonists about the American Revolution.
- SS.8.A.3.8
Examine individuals and groups that affected political and social motivations during the American Revolution.
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