High School African American History Worksheet Bundle / Workbook
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Description
This workbook offers a comprehensive history of the African-American experience in the U.S. from the era of slavery to the battles for civil rights. This workbook includes primary source excerpts, biographies and a cultural history, written at a level that high school students will find to be approachable and easy to follow.
The workbook format includes many multiple-choice and open-ended questions after each passage, with which students can practice reading comprehension and writing skills while reinforcing the important lessons of African-American history.
The chapters of this workbook serve as great standardized test prep while teaching a tremendous amount of African-American History. Individual chapters can be used to enrich social studies and language arts units or can be used in their entirety as the backbone curriculum for an African-American History course.
A complete answer key is included with the answers to the multiple choice questions and suggested responses to the open-ended questions.
Table of Contents:
1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Slavery in British North America
2. Slavery and Plantations
3. Slavery at Montpelier
4. Early Antislavery Movement
5. David Walker
6. The Underground Railroad in American History, 1820–1860
7. The Churches and the Question of Slavery
8. Crossing International Borders: Colonies and Fugitives
9. Slave Revolts and the Abolitionist Era
10. The North: Antislavery Societies and Vigilance Committees
11. Boston and the Fugitive Slave Law
12. The Underground Railroad in the South
13. Contrabands, Soldiers, and Emancipation
14. Harriet Tubman
15. Frederick Douglass
16. African Americans in the Civil War
17. African-American Contributions to Union Intelligence
18. African-American Contributions to Union Intelligence—Part II
19. African-American Contributions to Union Intelligence—Part III
20. Buffalo Soldiers
21. Harpers Ferry and the Niagara Movement
22. Black History, 1909–1940
23. The Origins of Jazz: Pre-1895
24. Early Development of Jazz: 1890–1917
25. Maturation of Jazz: 1917 to the Early 1930s
26. The Harlem Renaissance
27. The Trial of Henry Sweet (1926)
28. The Scottsboro Boys’ Cases, 1932 and 1935
29. Tuskegee Airmen
30. Tuskegee Airmen—Part II
31. Port Chicago Naval Magazine Explosion, 1944
32. Jackie Robinson
33. The Civil Rights Movement
34. The Civil Rights Movement—Part II
35. The Civil Rights Movement—Part III
36. Thurgood Marshall
37. Martin Luther King, Jr
38. Martin Luther King, Jr.—Part II
39. Recent Black History, 1964–1999
