Foundations of African American History
This African kingdom became well known for wealth, trade, and scholarship under Mansa Musa.
What is Mali?
This document announced the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate states during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This cultural movement centered in Harlem celebrated African American art, literature, and music during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This document began with the words “We the People” and established the framework for the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This system forcibly transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
These constitutional amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This Civil Rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This doctrine justified U.S. expansion across North America during the 1800s.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This famous abolitionist escaped slavery and later helped lead enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This organization used legal strategies to challenge segregation and discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
This music genre, rooted in African American communities, emerged in the South Bronx during the 1970s.
What is Hip-Hop?
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is Containment?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This African American leader founded Tuskegee Institute and promoted industrial education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This group, founded in 1966, emphasized Black self-defense and community empowerment.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This movement protested police violence and systemic racism beginning in the 2010s.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This APUSH historical thinking skill examines how events and ideas change or remain the same over time.
What is Continuity and Change Over Time (CCOT)?
This 1739 South Carolina slave rebellion became one of the largest uprisings in colonial America.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
These laws enforced racial segregation throughout the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1965 law prohibited racial discrimination in voting practices.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This African American woman became the first Black female vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This economic collapse beginning in 1929 led to widespread unemployment and hardship.
What is the Great Depression?