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

Proclamation of 1763: War Debt, Land and Colonial Resistance

Explain the Proclamation of 1763, war debt, western land claims and colonial resistance. Compare treaty and proclamation evidence with CLEP history practice.

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

Ohio Valley Rivalry: Native Diplomacy and the Albany Plan

Explain Ohio Valley rivalry, Native diplomacy and the Albany Plan of Union. Compare Washington’s journal, the proposal and political imagery with CLEP practice.

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

Colonial Government and Salutary Neglect: Powers and Practice

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

Enlightenment and Print Culture: Ideas, Franklin and Zenger

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.

First Great Awakening: Revival, New Lights and Social Limits

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.

Enslaved Community, Culture and Resistance: Agency and Limits

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.

Transatlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage: Sources and Scale

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

Atlantic Trade and Mercantilism: Navigation Acts Explained

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.

Quaker Pennsylvania: Toleration, Diversity and Its Limits

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.

Dutch New Netherland: Commerce, Diversity and Unequal Rights

Ballpoint-style comic depicts household weaving and dairying alongside a man carrying fish and timber, with a compact coastal town and shipyard beyond the doorway.

New England Towns: Family, Schools and the Mixed Economy

Violet-ink comic juxtaposes Anne Hutchinson addressing Massachusetts magistrates with Roger Williams approaching Rhode Island, beside a symbolic key labeled conscience.

Religious Dissent in Colonial America: Conscience and Authority

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