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Hand-drawn comic of Reagan’s tax lever, an independent Federal Reserve wheel, PATCO workers, a family wage envelope, investor gains, and a farmer facing debt.

Reaganomics, Union Decline, Inequality, and Deregulation

Chapter 15 of the CLEP History of the United States II study guide on Effortless Math covers Reaganomics, Union Decline, Inequality, and Deregulation: the key terms, the core ideas, and worked examples showing how this topic is tested on the exam. CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 15 Supply-side economics made an incentive […]

Hand-drawn colored-pencil comic of direct-mail organizers, voter registration, a taxpayer, religious organizing, and policy researchers before the 1980 election.

The New Right, Religious Conservatism, and the Election of 1980

Chapter 15 of the CLEP History of the United States II study guide on Effortless Math covers The New Right, Religious Conservatism, and the Election of 1980: the key terms, the core ideas, and worked examples showing how this topic is tested on the exam. CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 15 The […]

Hand-drawn comic of Ford’s 1974 pardon, Carter mediating the 1978 Camp David agreement between Sadat and Begin, and families following the Iran hostage crisis.

Ford, Carter, Human Rights, Camp David, and the Hostage Crisis

Hand-drawn comic of a worried worker with a wage envelope, rising grocery price tags, a 1970s gasoline queue, factory job losses, and the closed 1971 gold-exchange window.

The Nixon Shock, Oil Crises, Stagflation, and Deindustrialization

Hand-drawn scratchboard comic of Watergate tape reels linking reporters, a judge, congressional hearings, oversight records, and Nixon’s 1974 departure.

Watergate, Executive Power, and Post-Watergate Reform

Hand-drawn watercolor comic of Nixon, Mao, and Brezhnev at a triangular bargaining table, ping-pong diplomacy, SALT I launcher limits, and satellite verification.

Détente, China, SALT I, and the Limits of Triangular Diplomacy

Hand-drawn comic of Nixon holding local-choice and federal-rules folders, with revenue sharing, integrated schooling, construction oversight, and environmental monitoring.

Nixon’s Domestic Record, New Federalism, and the Southern Strategy

Hand-drawn comic of a magnified river ecosystem and pollution plume, a sampling scientist, community organizer, EPA regulator, and 1970 Earth Day teach-in.

Modern Environmentalism, the EPA, and the Regulatory State

Hand-drawn comic of gay liberation organizers and disability-rights activists sharing support, with a visibility march, accessible entrance, interpreter, and 1977 Section 504 folder.

Gay Liberation and Disability Rights

Hand-drawn printshop comic of Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers, Native treaty-rights organizers, and Asian American students and tenants producing distinct movement artwork.

Chicano, Red Power, and Asian American Movements

Hand-drawn comic of women comparing work, care, and choice around a table, with Title IX, an unratified ERA proposal, and access to law, education, employment, and care.

Second-Wave Feminism, Family Change, the ERA, and Roe

Hand-drawn comic showing a campus free-speech table, students discussing the 1962 Port Huron Statement inside a megaphone, counterculture musicians, and a skeptical worker.

The New Left, Counterculture, and Student Protest