AP African American Studies flashcards

3 decks · 210 cards · built into Willys · free samples below

Written against: College Board AP African American Studies Course and Exam Description (2024–25 course framework). Updated 2026-10-10.

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 2 decks · 150 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Origins to Emancipation AP African American Studies Units 1–2: African states and cultures from Kush to Kongo, the transatlantic slave trade and Middle Passage, slavery and law in the Americas, resistance and community, free Black communities and abolition. 10 free · 73 cards in the app Reconstruction to the Present AP African American Studies Units 3–4: Reconstruction and its overthrow, Jim Crow, uplift and organizations, the Great Migrations and New Negro arts, the civil rights and Black Power movements, Black arts, Black feminism and politics since 1970. 10 free · 77 cards in the app

Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Practice Questions Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on early African states, the slave trade, slavery and resistance, abolition, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, migration and civil rights. 6 free · 60 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

Origins of the African Diaspora 32
- Early Africa and the Sudanic Empires 15
- Coastal and Central African States 12
- Africans in the Early Atlantic World 5
Freedom Enslavement and Resistance 72
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade 12
- Slavery and Law in the Americas 14
- Resistance and Community 15
- Free Black Communities and Abolition 23
- Civil War and Emancipation 8
The Practice of Freedom 51
- Reconstruction and Its Overthrow 16
- Jim Crow and Resistance 11
- Uplift Institutions and Organizations 14
- Migration and the New Negro 10
Movements and Debates 55
- The Civil Rights Movement 18
- Black Power 10
- Black Arts and Black Studies 9
- Black Feminism 6
- Politics and Debates since 1970 12

A study plan

8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.

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Every deck is built into Willys

All 3 AP African American Studies decks (210 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

Topic outline follows the College Board AP African American Studies course framework in the Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2024), Units 1–2; used as an outline only, no text copied.
Trade estimates checked against the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (SlaveVoyages.org); facts checked against Library of Congress and National Archives primary-source collections; reference only, no text copied.
Facts also checked against museum, National Park Service, government (state, national and foreign), state library, UNESCO and United Nations, and university sources, published primary texts, peer-reviewed articles, reference encyclopedias and the American Heritage and Merriam-Webster dictionaries; reference only, no text copied.
OpenStax U.S. History, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
OpenStax World History, Volume 1, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
OpenStax World History, Volume 2, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
Topic outline follows the College Board AP African American Studies course framework in the Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2024), Units 3–4; used as an outline only, no text copied.
Facts checked against the National Archives' Milestone Documents, Library of Congress primary-source collections and Oyez case summaries; reference only, no text copied.
Topic outline follows the College Board AP African American Studies course framework in the Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2024), Units 1–4; used as an outline only, no text copied.
Facts checked against the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (SlaveVoyages.org), the National Archives' Milestone Documents, Library of Congress primary-source collections and Oyez case summaries; reference only, no text copied.
Direct quotations come only from public-domain texts (constitutional amendments, the Emancipation Proclamation and writings published before 1930); other sources are described or marked as paraphrased.

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