AP African American Studies Semester 1 Final Exam

Describe how the distribution of African ethnic groups in the American South affected the development of Black communities.

Explain the scale and scope of the transatlantic slave trade, including an estimate of the total number of Africans forcibly transported to the Americas.

Identify two methods by which Africans resisted their enslavement during the Middle Passage and explain how African resistance impacted the design and operation of slave ships.

Describe the significance of the La Amistad revolt led by Sengbe Pieh in 1839.

Analyze how slave ship diagrams have been used by slave traders, abolitionists, and modern artists. Compare and contrast their purposes.

Identify two specific restrictions commonly found in slave codes in the American colonies and early United States and explain how slave codes affected the lives of both free and enslaved African Americans.

Identify two ways that the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem affected African American families in colonial America and evaluate the long-term impact of partus on the development of racial taxonomies in the United States.

Explain how Northup's perspective as a formerly free man who was kidnapped into slavery influences his description of the slave market.