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AP U.S. History Exam 1.8. How did the system illustrated in the image impact attitudes toward race in the North American colonies?
- Early British Colonies / Chesapeake and North Carolina
- Early British Colonies / New England
- Early British Colonies / The Middle Colonies
- Early British Colonies / Southernmost Atlantic Coast and British West Indies
- Competition and Conflict Between Europeans and American Indians / British Conflicts with Native Americans
- Evolving Political and Cultural Attitudes in the Colonies / British Efforts to Regulate the Colonies
- Slavery in the English Colonies / Colonial Participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Transcript
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by comparative advantage,
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an expertise in similes and metaphors.
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Yeah, like that.
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All right. How did the system illustrated in the image -
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this one, right here -
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- 00:13
impact attitudes toward race
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in the North American colonies?
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Hmm.
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All right, and here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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All right.
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Well, one of these legs is not
- 00:31
like the other.
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That arrow with "slaves to the Americas"? Right there?
- 00:35
It caused a tectonic shift in
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attitudes toward race in the North American colonies.
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But let's see which answer best
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describes that colossal shake-up.
- 00:45
Did triangular trade impact attitudes
- 00:48
toward race because A -
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colonies that relied upon slavery
- 00:52
had less clearly defined racial categories?
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Hmm.
- 00:56
Well, a widespread system of institutional slavery
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probably led to some pretty strong
- 01:01
feelings about race,
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since an entire group was subjugated
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based solely on the color of their skin.
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So that's a no-go on A and D.
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Did this trading system impact racial attitudes because
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B - the Spanish and French rejected
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the idea of racial intermarriage?
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Hmm.
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Well, despite the questionable tactics
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they used in colonization,
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the Spanish and French were somewhat
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forward-thinking in their views of interracial marriage,
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which led to gradual gradations in race
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within their colonies.
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So that takes B out of the mix, as well,
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which means that triangular trade
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most impacted attitudes toward race because
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C - strict racial
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categories were created and adhered to
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in the British colonies.
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Unlike the French and Spanish,
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the British had different views on
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interracial marriage, leading to strict
- 01:53
categories with very little intermixing.
- 01:56
So C is the correct answer.
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And, unfortunately, it would take hundreds of years
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for the U.S. to dismantle the racial divisions
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and categories that took root during British colonization.
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Talk about planting some bad seeds.
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[ groan ]
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