Investigation
Atlantic Slave Trade
Slavery in America
Concepts
Big Ideas
100

Emmett Till

Who was the 14 year old that was murdered in August 1955, in Money Mississippi?

100

4 squared Feet

How much space did each of the slaves have on board the ships? 
100

1619

When was the year that slavery came to America? 

100

CRAAP

What is the system we use to evaluate sources?

100

Constructed narrative

What is a collection of facts and evidence about a person/ place/ or event?

200

A lie

What did Carolyn Bryant tell her husband about what Emmett Till did? 

200

Africa

Whose community leaders would trade the slaves that they had captured from other villages and trade them with Europeans? 

200

Plantations

Where did the slaves work? 

200

Perspectives

What shape our ways of looking at the world and making sense of it?

200

Abraham Lincoln 

Who was responsable for ending slavery in America, as well as the largest mass execution of Native Americans?

300

Chicago 

Where did Emmett Till live? 

300

America's

Who would purchase slaves and trade goods like;cotton, tobacco, and sugar?

300
Farm/ Harvest

What did the slaves do with; cotton, tobacco, and rice?

300

The authority, power, and respect associated with a person, group, place, or object.

What is Mana?

300

pūrākau or pakiwaitara

What are sometimes referred to as myths, legends, fables? 

400

50,000 - 100,000 

How many people went to view Emmett Till's body?

400

Europe 

Who provided goods like; guns, pots, alcohol, etc. To trade with villages in Africa? 

400

Laws

How did states support and uphold slavery? 

400
Whakapapa

What is  is a framework that interconnects and maps the interrelationships between all things (people, animals, land, ancestors, etc)?

400

Incomplete, inaccurate, or distorted by bias, not based on evidence...

What are some limitations for historical sources?

500

Jet

What is the name of the magazine that published the images of Emmett Till's body? 

500

Loose or tight

What are the two different ways that slaves were packed onto the ships?

500

Jim Crow

What was one of the ways that America treated people differently based on their race? 

500

Can be synonymous with ‘identity’ but is broader in scope. Includes all unique characteristics that indicate who someone or some place are,

What is Tuakiri?

500

Twelve

How many big ideas are there?

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