Cumulative Final Exam Study Guide:

Africa

  1. Culture
  2. Polytheism
  3. Patriarchal Society
  4. Gender Roles
  5. Structure of home
  6. Yams
  7. Griots & Music
  8. Slavery
  9. Things Fall Apart
  10. Okonkwo
  11. Basic Plot of Book
  12. Why it was written
  13. Who wrote the book – Chinua Achebe
  14. Heart of Darkness

Slavery:

  1. Olaudah Equiano, Venture Smith
  2. 6 Phases of Slave Trade
  3. Trans-Saharan (old world) vs. Trans-Atlantic (new world)
  4. The Dewolf Family
  5. Triangular Trade
  6. The Role of Rum in slave trade
  7. Bacon’s Rebellion
  8. Hispaniola
  9. Jamestown
  10. Indentured Servants vs. Slaves
  11. Slave Codes

Revolutionary War Era & Black Enlightenment

  1. Declaration of Independence & African Americans
  2. George Washington views on black soldiers
  3. Black Loyalist vs. Black Patriots
  4. Lord Dunmore
  5. Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on State of Virginia
  6. Benjamin Banneker

Abolitionist Movement:

  1. Kemble v Butler
  2. William Lloyd Garrison
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. Gabriel Prosser & Denmark Vessey
  5. Henry Box Brown
  6. Liberia – Colonization Society
  7. David Walker -- Appeal

Civil War

1.  The “Path to Civil War”

a.  Election of 1860, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, etc.

2.  African American Involvement in the War

a.  Union initial position on black soldiers

b.  Discrimination, inequality, segregation

c.  Contraband Regiments

d.  Volunteer Regiments

e.  Massachusetts 54th

i.  Robert Gould Shaw

ii.  William Carney (Pvt. Silas Trip)

iii.  Assault on Battery Wagner/Fort Wagner

f.  Confederate Proclamation against Black Soldiers

3.  Abraham Lincoln

a.  Political Bungling – pleasing Abolitionists vs. Border States

b.  Emancipation Proclamation

c.  Fight to “Preserve the Union” vs. “Fight to End Slavery”

Reconstruction

  1. 13th, 14th , 15th amendments
  2. KKK
  3. Freedman’s Bureau
  4. Reparations

5.  Special Field Order #15 – Forty Acres and a Mule

  1. Sharecropping
  2. Lynching/Southern Justice
  3. Black Codes

Civil Rights

  1. Jim Crow Laws
  2. Plessy vs. Ferguson
  3. Emmet Till
  4. Brown v Board of Education
  5. Montgomery Bus Boycott/Rosa Parks
  6. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. Malcom X
  8. Ghandi and MLK
  9. March on Washington
  10. I Have a Dream speech
  11. John F. Kennedy
  12. Black Panthers