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Lecture on African American History and Psychology and take section quiz and exam in both.

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Major Questions you should be able to answer to answer
What economic factors affect my family situation?
Which arrangement describes my family/work situation, and how would I like it to be?
Which work-life strategy would be st work for me?
Major Question: What economic factors affect my family situation?
How Work Has Changed
From Work & Family to Families in the Workforce
More Working Hours, Less Leisure
Noncash Benefits: Alternative Community Welfare

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Major Questions you should be able to answer
What are my feelings about having children, and what influences these feelings?
Which kind of birth-control method would probably be best for me and my partner?
What have I learned about abortion and safe haven laws that I didn’t know?
If I wanted children but had difficulty having them, what would my options be?
Major Question: What are my feelings about having children, and what influences these feelings?
How Would You React If You Suddenly Learned That You’ll Be a Parent?
Planner Partners
Acceptance-of-Fate Partners
Ambivalent Partners
Yes-No Partners

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Describe events leading up to the Civil War, including the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Laws, the Kansas Nebraska Act, the attack on Charles Sumner, and the election of Abraham Lincoln.
• Comment on the sentiment towards blacks in the North. What was the role of racism, nativism, literature, and fugitive slaves on white sentiments?
• Discuss the importance and ideas behind the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court and the John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• Describe the sentiment of racism and antislavery in the Lincoln-Douglas debates? What were Lincoln’s specific views about blacks?
• Describe the reaction by the South and blacks to Lincoln’s 1860 presidency election.

TOPICS FOR LECTURES/LONG ESSAYS OR PAPERS/CLASS DISCUSSIONS

• Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s views of slavery and blacks. How has he gained a reputation as the “Great Emancipator”?
• Discuss the sentiment of how many in the South continue to believe that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. How did the Civil War happen? Discuss some of these events and the war’s primary causes. How was slavery at the heart of the origins of the war?
• Discuss the differences between the North and the South in the decades leading up to the Civil War, in ideology, culture, economy, and resources.
• Explore how nativism and the conditions of early nineteenth-century immigrants could be seen as the North’s version of slavery.

Major Questions you should be able to answer
What kind of alternative household structure might I consider good for me?
What kind of single am I or could I be?
What is my understanding of homosexuality, and how does it relate to the research?
Would I ever consider communal living, group marriage, or open marriage?

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• Outline the development of various antislavery organizations, including the AASS, women’s groups, and black organizations. Include their origins, tactics, beliefs, and effects.
• Describe how whites reacted to the growing abolitionist movement in the North and the South.
• Describe how territorial expansion affected the controversy over slavery.
• Describe the role of black institutions, specifically the church and newspapers, in the abolitionist movement.
• Reflect on why the American Anti-Slavery Society split. What were the characteristics of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS) and the Liberty Party?
• Discuss the changes in tactics among different groups in the abolitionist movement, both among whites and blacks.

TOPICS FOR LECTURES/LONG ESSAYS OR PAPERS/CLASS DISCUSSIONS

• Describe how the AASS lived up to its stated ideals. How did it incorporate blacks and women?
• Describe the overall effects of the abolitionist movement. What did it lead to?
• Discuss the film Amistad. How is it a realistic portrayal of the historical events? How is it not realistic? What is the role of film in a history class? Why do you think Steven Spielberg made the film?
• Discuss the myths and realities of the underground railroad.
• Describe how the abolitionist movement lead to the women’s movement, What types of conditions were women under in mid-nineteenth century America, and how did some come to recognize their inequality and oppression? Why was the women’s movement not successful at the same time as the abolitionist movement?
• Discuss Frederick Douglass’s views of race and how he thought black life could be improved.
• Compare how the blacks’ view of abolitionism differed from the whites’ view? How did the tactics and solutions of the two groups differ?