African Origins
This historical context explains how empires like Mali became wealthy and powerful through control of trade routes and natural resources.
What are trans-Saharan trade networks and access to resources like gold and salt?
This system forcibly transported Africans to the Americas to meet labor demands.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and expanding rights for freedpeople.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This movement challenged segregation and fought for equal rights in the 1950s–1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
“Explain the causes of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North between 1910 and 1930.”
What is this question asking you to do?
causation; Explain the causes (reasons) why the Great Migration happened
This religion influenced political systems, education, and culture in West Africa, especially in cities like Timbuktu.
What is Islam?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in a cycle of trade and exploitation.
What is the triangular trade system?
These laws enforced segregation and limited Black Americans’ rights in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This cultural movement expressed Black identity through art, music, and literature during the early 20th century.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Compare the experiences of African Americans in the North and South during the Jim Crow era.”
What is this question asking you to do?
Explain similarities and differences between experiences in the North and South
Understanding this challenges stereotypes by showing that African societies were advanced, organized, and diverse before slavery.
What is AP AAS
This form of resistance included maintaining language, religion, and traditions despite enslavement.
What is cultural resistance?
This labor system kept many Black farmers in cycles of debt after slavery.
What is sharecropping?
This concept explains how Black culture has shaped music, language, and global trends
What is cultural influence or cultural expression?
“Analyze the continuities and changes in African American political participation from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement.”
What is this question asking you to do?
Explain what stayed the same and what changed over time
This city became a major center of learning, scholarship, and trade in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
This economic system drove the expansion of slavery by prioritizing profit and large-scale agricultural production.
What is capitalism?
This practice denied loans to Black neighborhoods and contributed to housing inequality.
What is redlining?
This 1960s–70s movement emphasized Black pride, self-determination, and political empowerment.
What is the Black Power Movement?
“To what extent did the New Deal improve economic opportunities for African Americans?”
What is this question asking you to do?
Evaluate how much (how successful) the New Deal improved opportunities
This West African empire became extremely wealthy through control of gold trade and is associated with the famous ruler Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
This rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 was one of the largest uprisings of enslaved Africans in the colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This system reflects a modern continuation of racial control through policing and incarceration.
What is mass incarceration?
This modern movement protests police violence and systemic racism while continuing earlier struggles for equality.
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
Develop an argument about the Civil Rights Movement that includes broader historical context from the early 20th century.”
What is this question asking you to do?
Connect the Civil Rights Movement to larger historical events or trends before it