The course
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Start here
Section I: 60 multiple-choice questions in 70 minutes, 60% of the score. Section II: 3 short-answer questions in 40 minutes (18%) and the document-based question in 45 minutes (12%).
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Source analysis
Every multiple-choice set is built on one or two sources: claims, evidence, perspective, purpose, context, audience and data
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Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora
c. 900 BCE to the 16th century; 20-25% of the multiple-choice section, about 13 of the 60 questions
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Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
16th century to 1865; 30-35% of the multiple-choice section, about 20 of the 60 questions
African explorers, the slave trade and the Middle PassageLabor, law and the construction of raceCreating African American culture and identityStono, Fort Mose, Haiti and revolts in the United StatesBlack organizing, maroon societies and diasporic connectionsEmigration debates, radical resistance and abolitionArt, slave narratives, the Civil War and freedom days61 questions - 5
Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
1865 to the 1940s; 20-25% of the multiple-choice section, about 13 of the 60 questions
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Unit 4: Movements and Debates
1940s to the 2000s; 20-25% of the multiple-choice section, about 14 of the 60 questions
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Free response
Section II: three short-answer questions in 40 minutes (3 or 4 parts each, one point a part) and the document-based question in 45 minutes (7 points)