• Discuss the key events that marked the move toward American independence.
• Throughout this era, blacks, both slave and free, began to organize communities. Explain several things that were organized.
• Discuss the invention of Eli Whitney and its impact on the United States.
• Chapter 8 discussed Antebellum Free Blacks. Discus the similarity and differences in the lives of slaves and free blacks.
• In exploring the anti-slavery movement, discuss white involvement.
