1. African American History
Colonial America
First Africans brought to Virginia, 1619
Massachusetts: first colony to legalize slavery, 1641 (slavery legal in all colonies by 1700s)
Georgia: only original colony to forbid slavery in charter; will rescind in 1735
Late 1700s
Constitutional Convention, 1787
Three-Fifths Compromise
Slave Trade Compromise
Cotton gin helped make slavery profitable, 1793
Toussaint L’Ouverture rebellion in Haiti led to stronger Slave Codes in the US, 1797

2. African slave trade outlawed, 1808
 Early 1800s
African slave trade outlawed, 1808
Slave population increased due to increase in native born population
Majority of white southerners owned no slaves
Denmark Vesey’s failed rebellion, 1822
Nat Turner’s rebellion, 1831
Abolition: American Anti-Slavery Society
William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator
Frederick Douglass, The North Star
Sojourner Truth
American Colonization Society

3. Civil War and Reconstruction
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Black Codes
Sharecropping, Crop Liens
Northern troops pulled out of the South (Compromise 1877)
Late 1800s
Black Codes: Voting rights taken away from African Americans after Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws adopted by southern states,
Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise, 1895
WEB Dubois, ceaseless agitation, criticism of Washington’s accommodationist policy
Plessey v. Ferguson, 1896

4. DuBois and the Niagara Movement, 1905
Early 1900s
DuBois and the Niagara Movement, 1905
Later National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1909
Birth of a Nation, 1915
The Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro, 1920s
Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalism (Back to Africa Movement)

5. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954; Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Movement,
1950s
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954; Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Martin Luther King Jr; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Integration of Little Rock High School, 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1957: commission to investigate discrimination
1960s
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); sit-ins at Greensboro, NC, lunch counter, 1960
1961: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Freedom Riders
March on Washington, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964; Civil Rights Act of 1965
March on Selma, 1965
SNCC fracture:
Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Black Panthers founded, 1965
Elijah Muhamad, Nation of Islam, Malcolm X assassinated, 1965
Days of Rage Riots,
Martin Luther King assassinated, 1968

6. Southern Colonies: Anglican; emphasis on profit
Religion
1600s and 1700s
Southern Colonies: Anglican; emphasis on profit
New England Puritans (Mass Bay)
Calvinist: predestination, both church and state serve God
John Winthrop, the “City upon a Hill” ethos; Congregationalists
Halfway Covenant
Dissent:
Roger Williams
The Heresy of Anne Hutchinson
Thomas Hooker
Salem Witch Trials, 1692
First Great Awakening, 1730s-1760s: The Antinomian Revolution
human sinfulness leads to eternal damnation unless humans surrender to God and accept Jesus
Emotion is more important than intellect
Schism in Congregationalist Church, plurality of the religion
Two methods:
Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield: Evangelical