African American History and Civil Rights

The following is a guideline of the major figures, events, laws, and ideas in African-American History.  When studying, these are topics that come up regularly on the AP exam.  Additionally, understanding civil rights, social, and cultural issues will benefit students on both the multiple choice and essay portions of the exam. 

Review Materials: Developments affecting African-American History and Civil Rights

1.       Introduction of Tobacco @ Jamestown

2.       Indentured Servitude

3.       Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676

4.       Triangular Trade/Middle Passage

5.       Stono Rebellion, 1739

6.       Declaration of Independence

7.       Northwest Ordinance, 1787

8.       Constitution, 1787

9.       Haitian Rebellion, 1790s

10.   Cotton Gin & King Cotton

11.   Missouri Compromise, 1820

12.   Gag Rule

13.   Annexation of Texas

14.   Wilmot Proviso

15.   Creation of the Republican Party

16.   Compromise of 1850

17.   Ostend Manifesto, 1854

18.   Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

19.   Dred Scott Decision, 1857

20.   Second Great Awakening

21.   American Colonization Society

22.   William Lloyd Garrison

23.   Frederick Douglass

24.   Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin

25.   Emancipation Proclamation

26.   54^th Massachusetts Regiment

27.   13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments

28.   Sharecropping

29.   Black Codes

30.   Jim Crow

31.   1873 Slaughter House Case

32.   Compromise of 1877

33.   1883 Civil Rights Case

34.   Plessy v. Ferguson

35.   Booker T. Washington

36.   W.E.B. DuBois

37.   NAACP

38.   Ida B. Wells-Barnett

39.   Birth of a Nation

40.   Harlem Renaissance

41.   Marcus Garvey/UNIA

42.   Eleanor Roosevelt and the DAR

43.   Desegregation of Military, 1948

44.   Brown v. Board of Ed., Topeka, KS, 1954

45.   Robert F. Kennedy

46.   Martin Luther King, Jr.

47.   Woolworth Sit-in

48.   Malcom X

49.   Huey Newton

50.   Vietnam War

For more from 1948-Present visit http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
For an accurate timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement with links, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement_Timeline