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Charcoal and watercolor comic of a Black sharecropping family examining a merchant’s account book, a crop-debt loop linking supplies and cotton, growing mills and railways, and a separate convict-leasing mine scene.

Sharecropping, the Crop-Lien System, Convict Leasing, and the New South

Review sharecropping, crop liens, convict leasing and the New South for CLEP. Compare contracts, credit and forced labor with four practice questions.

Colored-pencil and sienna-ink comic of a western watershed linking diverse cowboys and longhorns, a railhead, industrial mine and irrigation ditches, with surveyors studying a water map and a Native family beside an established home.

Cattle, Mining, Water, and the Frontier Thesis

Review cattle, mining, water and the frontier thesis for CLEP. Compare resources, Powell’s planning and Turner’s interpretation with four questions.

Graphite and watercolor comic of a Native parent and boarding-school child holding a family letter, Carlisle in the distance, and a community representative pointing to an allotment map beside a treaty document.

Assimilation, Carlisle, and the Dawes Severalty Act

Soft-pastel comic illustration of a Lakota family holding a homeland map, buffalo herds, a reservation agency, and a frontier Army vignette, exploring Plains warfare and federal reservation policy.

Plains Warfare, Reservations, and the Destruction of the Buffalo

Linocut and colored-pencil comic showing homesteaders examining a land claim, a farmer comparing grain and freight costs, and Chinese railroad workers connecting farms to nineteenth-century markets.

Homesteads, Railroads, and the National Market

Ink-wash and charcoal comic of a Black teacher and voter, threatened polling, the Panic of 1873, narrowed federal remedies, and troops leaving a southern statehouse during Reconstruction’s retreat.

White Counterrevolution, Judicial Retreat, and the Compromise of 1877

Textured gouache comic of a Black elected representative and civic coalition, with scenes of public schooling, Black men voting, and federal enforcement of voting rights during Reconstruction.

Reconstruction Governments, Black Officeholding, and Federal Enforcement

Brush-ink historical comic of Andrew Johnson, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, the Senate’s 35–19 impeachment trial vote, House charges, and congressional Reconstruction voter registration.

Congressional Reconstruction and Johnson’s Impeachment

Crayon and watercolor sketchbook comic distinguishing the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition in 1865, the Fourteenth’s citizenship and equal protection in 1868, and the Fifteenth’s racial voting protections in 1870.

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

Chalk-pastel and sepia comic contrasting restrictive Black Code labor contracts with federal civil protections for contracts, property, and court access under the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Black Codes and the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Woodcut and tempera comic of a freed family studying a family record, a reunited couple, community schoolbuilding, and a worker negotiating a contract with a Freedmen’s Bureau agent.

The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Meanings of Freedom

Crosshatched watercolor comic separating Lincoln’s wartime proposal from Johnson’s postwar clash with Congress, with freed families, a Black Union veteran, petitions, and southern rebuilding.

The Postwar Problem: Lincoln, Johnson, and Competing Reconstructions

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