Anti-Federalists to States’ Rights, to Segregation AP African Studies Unit 2

This download includes a Power Point with a set of research topics designed to reinforce the topics for discussion in Unit 2 of the African American Studies Framework. Students can use the worksheet to research topics or use the topics for a presentation. At times, primary documents embedded in the slides, and links to videos are provided. The focus is to understand the evolution of States' Rights in American History. Included is a lecture video explaining the historiography of each topic.

Terms Addressed Include (27 topics in total):

Slavery

1. The creation of the Legislative Branch as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and how does the U.S. Constitution address slavery?

2. Federalist and antifederalist debate

3. Why did slave states not want to count their slave population to pay taxes to the federal government but wanted to count their slave population for representation in Congress?

4. Northwest Ordinance of 1787

5. Missouri Compromise

6. Kansas Nebraska Act

1800ish and Slavery

12. Dred Scott Case

13. Reason for Southern secession and the creation of the CSA

14. Emancipation Proclamation

18. Segregation laws and connection to federalist and anti-federalist debate/Plessy vs. Ferguson

19. Hayes Tilden Election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction

20. Lynching and the Dyer Bill

Civil Rights

21. Brown I, Brown II and the Dixicrat Party

24. Benign Neglect as a solution to race in America

25. Bernhard Goetz

26. 1980 Howard Beach race incident

27. OJ Trial

Download Includes:

Mp4 explanation video, terms worksheet, primary source worksheet, and Power Point slideshow. Format in Word, PDF, and Power Point.