1. In what major ways was the enslavement of Africans during the 1500s important to the histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas? 2. How do you think the crises leading up to the American Revolution transformed African American culture? 3. Explain the “three-fifths compromise” and why it was important. 4. How and why did slavery survive, then expand in the southern portion of the US while it simultaneously died out in the north? 5. Specifically, whose economic, political, and cultural interests were served by the imposition of Jim Crow in the South and beyond? 6. What were the underlying purposes of the segregation system in the South and in other regions of the US; how successful was it? 7. Explain why slavery was questioned widely during the Revolutionary period, and why the northern and southern history of the institution diverged so greatly after the Revolution. 8. It is widely believed that, from the Northern point of view, the Civil War was a war to end slavery, but in fact the initial war goals of the Union was to force the secessionist states back even with slavery intact. Explain why neither side in a devastating war, largely caused by the disputes over the institution of slavery, initially advocated the destruction of slavery. And explain why and how this changed—why and how the Civil War did in fact became a war to abolish slavery. 9. How would you characterize the roles of the Communist and Socialist parties in the black freedom struggles of the early 1930s? 10. Was the labor movement an ally or an antagonist of the black freedom movement during the Great Depression and World War II? 11. Why was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education so exceptionally important? 12. African Americans had resisted segregation in public transport many times over many decades; why did Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat to a white man result in a movement so large, long, and seminal as the Montgomery Bus Boycott?