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Handwritten homespun comic shows a colonial woman weaving cloth during nonimportation, with the tea duty retained in 1770.

CLEP U.S. History I 025: Townshend Duties, Boston, and Nonimportation

Lesson 5.4 of Chapter 5 of the U.S. History to 1877 study guide on Effortless Math covers CLEP U.S. History I 025: Townshend Duties, Boston, and Nonimportation: the key terms, the core ideas, and worked examples showing how this topic is tested on the exam. U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 5 | Lesson 5.4 […]

Handwritten printer-workshop comic shows the Stamp Act of 1765, molasses in 1764, and the unresolved question of consent after repeal in 1766.

CLEP U.S. History I 024: Sugar and Stamp Acts and Constitutional Protest

Lesson 5.3 of Chapter 5 of the U.S. History to 1877 study guide on Effortless Math covers CLEP U.S. History I 024: Sugar and Stamp Acts and Constitutional Protest: the key terms, the core ideas, and worked examples showing how this topic is tested on the exam. U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 5 | […]

Handwritten comic shows a crowned purse pulling war-debt, troops, and administration costs beside a Proclamation of 1763 barrier in wooded mountains.

CLEP U.S. History I 023: War, Debt, and the Proclamation of 1763

Handwritten garden metaphor depicts Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Haudenosaunee as distinct trees, with British and French claim-scrolls outside.

CLEP U.S. History I 022: Rival Empires, Native Diplomacy, and the Ohio Valley

Hand-drawn colonial assemblymen hold the governor’s salary purse strings while he holds royal instructions; a customs official continues work nearby.

CLEP U.S. History I 021: Colonial Government and Salutary Neglect

Linocut-style comic shows a colonial press sending reason, observation, and debate toward a shared newspaper reading, with a magnifying glass and prism.

CLEP U.S. History I 020: Enlightenment and Print Culture

Brush-pen comic depicts an itinerant colonial preacher with interested New Lights and skeptical Old Lights, showing differing responses to revival preaching in the 1730s and 1740s.

CLEP U.S. History I 019: The First Great Awakening

Hand-lettered graphite and gouache illustration of a Black elder sharing oral memory with a child, with a constrained rice-plantation landscape beyond the window.

CLEP U.S. History I 018: Enslaved Community, Culture, and Resistance

Chalk and conte illustration contrasts shipping records and an Atlantic slave ship with a dignified symbolic portrait and testimony notebook, emphasizing scale and lived experience.

CLEP U.S. History I 017: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage

Teal and orange marker comic shows a puzzled merchant ship at a customs desk, Navigation Acts paperwork, and overlapping routes among several harbors.

CLEP U.S. History I 016: Atlantic Trade, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts

Oil-pastel paper-model metaphor contrasts Pennsylvania’s 1682 Frame of Government and toleration with the 1737 Walking Purchase and a surveying shadow of dispossession.

CLEP U.S. History I 015: Quaker Pennsylvania and Negotiated Diversity

Hand-drawn New Amsterdam market comic shows a frazzled merchant and waiting traders beside a giant company-power account book, contrasting commerce with unequal rights.

CLEP U.S. History I 014: Dutch New Netherland and Plural Middle Colonies