HIS 115 - African-American History

• Progress toward civilization in Early Africa.
• Primary characteristics of the Atlantic slave trade.
• New World (colonial) servitude.
• American Revolution’s liberalizing impact on African Americans.
• New conservatism in place by 1800.
• Slavery in the Antebellum South.
• Black participation in the American Civil War.
• Trials and tribulations of freedmen during the Reconstruction era
• Booker T. Washington’s and W.E.B. Dubois’s racial remedies.
• Black participation in World War I.
• Black response to racism in the 1920s.
• Black role in World War II.
• Successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement.
• Current status of race relations within America.

A =  90 - 100
B =   80 - 89
C =   70 - 79
D =   60 - 69
F =     0 - 59

1. Examine the African way of life, the slave trade and New World (colonial) servitude.
2. Describe the position of blacks in the new republic, 1790-1861.
3. Examine black involvement during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
4. Assess the impact of America’s color line in the early twentieth century.
5. Examine the status of African Americans from World War II to present.

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