African American History: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

The Influence of Geography on Slavery

The Growth of Slavery in America 1619-1860

African America Life 1619-1860

African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction

African American Life After Emancipation Through World War I

African Americans and the Harlem Renaissance

African American Life During the Great Depression and World War II

The Modern Civil Rights Movement

African American Issues in Contemporary Times

Analyze the economic, political, and social reasons for focusing the slave trade on Africa, including the role of Africans, Europeans, and colonists. (C, E, H)

Analyze the role of geography on the growth and development of slavery. (E, G)

Assess the impact of the slave trade on Africa and the colonies. (E)

Identify and explain the Middle Passage as one of the largest forced migrations in human history. (C, H)

Analyze the economic, social, religious, and legal justifications for the establishment and continuation of slavery. (C, E, H)

Identify and evaluate the various ways Africans in America resisted slavery. (C, H)

Analyze the role slavery played in the development of nationalism and sectionalism. (C, E, H, P)

Assess the development of the abolitionist movement and its impact on slavery and the nation. (C, H, P)

Compare and contrast African American urban and rural communities in the North and the South. (C, G)

Describe and analyze the African American family in antebellum America. (C)

Describe the development of African American institutions such as religion, education, and benevolent organizations. (C)

Identify and explain the contributions of African Americans in science and the arts. (C)

Evaluate President Lincoln's views on slavery and the status of freed slaves in the United States. (P)

Identify and explain the roles of African American soldiers, spies, and slaves to the war effort in both the North and the South, including the 13th U.S. Colored Troops. (H, TN)

Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on the legal, political, social, cultural, educational, and economic life of freedmen. (H, P)

Assess the successes and failures of Reconstruction as they relate to African Americans. (H, P)

Assess the economic and social impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans. (C, H, E)

Analyze the legal ramifications of segregation laws and court decisions on American society. (H, P)

Compare and contrast the political movements that developed in response to Jim Crow laws, including the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, the Urban League, The Atlanta Compromise, The Farmers' Union Movement, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the Anti-Lynching Crusade. (H, P)

Compare and contrast the African American political and legal personalities of the time period and their impact on American society, including Samuel McElwee, Robert Church Sr., Ida B. Wells, Randolph Miller, and James Napier. (P, TN)

Describe the development of African American institutions such as religion, education, and benevolent organizations. (C)

Evaluate the economic, cultural, political, and social impact of African American migration within and from the South, including the Exodusters, Benjamin Pap Singleton, and 2nd Great Migration. (C, E, G, TN)

Describe the impact of African American regiments on the western campaigns, the Spanish American War, and World War I, including Buffalo Soldiers and George Jordan. (C, H, TN)

Assess the literary contributions made by African Americans. (C)

Describe the contributions of African Americans to the performing arts, including Fisk Jubilee Singers, W.C. Handy, John Work III, and DeFord Bailey. (C, TN)

Describe the contributions of African Americans to the visual arts, including Edmondson Williams. (C, TN)

Evaluate the impact of the African American media on American life. (C)

Analyze reactions of Americans to the Harlem Renaissance. (C)

Analyze the impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal on the lives of African Americans. (C, H, P)

Evaluate the continued quest for civil rights in America. (C, P)

Describe the effects of African American "pop" culture of the 1930's and 1940's. (C)

Analyze the impact of racism in America during World War II. (C)

Describe and evaluate the contributions of African Americans during World War II. (C, H)

Explain how World War II laid the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement. (C, P)

Explain how legal victories prior to 1954 inspired and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. (P)

Describe the impact of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and evaluate the resistance and reaction to it. (H, P)

Define various methods used to obtain civil rights. (C, H)

Identify various organizations and their role in the Civil Rights Movement, including the Highlander Folk School. (C, H, P, TN)

Assess the extent to which the Civil Rights Movement transformed American politics and society. (C, H, P)

Determine the impact of the Vietnam War on the Civil Rights Movement. (C, H, P)

Summarize the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee, including the integration of Clinton High School, sit-ins in Nashville, and the activities of Diane Nash and Jim Lawson. (C, H, P, TN)

Identify and analyze how the changing political environment has impacted civil rights. (P)

Describe how African Americans have responded to or engaged in political conservatism. (P)

Compare and contrast the responses of African Americans to the economic, social, and political challenges of contemporary America. (C, E, P)

Identify and evaluate major contemporary African American issues confronting society, including affirmative action, the educational achievement gap, the wealth gap, poverty, AIDS, and crime. (C, E, P)

Analyze the impact of immigration and migration on the lives of African Americans in contemporary America. (C, G)

Identify the major contributions of contemporary African Americans in business, education, the arts, politics, sports, science, technology, and society in general, including Wilma Rudolph, Tina Turner and Oprah Winfrey. (C, TN)