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Mint-paper crayon comic of taxes, bonds and greenbacks carrying a heavy supply crate, with a liberty question beside a scale, illustrating Union wartime finance and expanded federal power.

Civil War Government: Finance, Economic Policy and Dissent

Review Civil War government, Union finance, Confederate centralization, banking, land policy and habeas corpus, with sources and CLEP U.S. History I practice.

Indigo and ochre pastel portraits of Black Union Army and Navy servicemen, with equal-pay and citizenship questions, illustrating how military service strengthened claims to equal rights.

Black Military Service in the Civil War: Slavery and Citizenship

Review Black military service in the Civil War: enlistment, unequal treatment, emancipation and citizenship claims, with source records and CLEP practice.

Turquoise and burgundy hand-drawn vignettes of a soldier writing home, a woman rolling bandages, and a Black woman and child loading produce, connected by letters to show different wartime lives and pressures.

Civil War Home Fronts: Soldiers, Women, Shortages and Dissent

Coral folk-art comic of a history student assembling policy, action and enforcement puzzle pieces, with a question about where emancipation policy applied.

Emancipation Proclamation: Scope, Policy and the Path to Freedom

Saffron and lavender chalk comic of magnifying-glass detectives examining Gettysburg’s checked invasion and Vicksburg’s Mississippi control, with a reminder that the war continued.

Civil War Turning Points: Major Campaigns and Their Consequences

Hand-drawn raccoon study mascot carries factory, locomotive and ship models while checking a mobilization, supply and strategy plan for the Civil War.

Union and Confederate Strengths: Resources, Strategy and Diplomacy

Fuchsia and turquoise marker comic of a student studying an accordion chronology from the 1860 election through Deep South secession, Fort Sumter, the troop call and Upper South secession.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Election of 1860 and Secession Explained

Lilac and mustard crayon comic of a puzzled gavel beside citizenship, territorial slavery and property-reasoning labels, illustrating political conflict after the 1857 Dred Scott decision.

Dred Scott Decision: Citizenship, Slavery and Constitutional Crisis

Sage and rose watercolor comic of a torn Whig umbrella and a patchwork Republican coalition umbrella joining former Whigs, Free Soilers and antislavery Democrats against slavery’s expansion.

Rise of the Republican Party: Why the Whigs Collapsed

Orange and blue brush-ink comic of a puzzled Kansas ballot box between competing results, illustrating disputed votes and popular sovereignty after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas: Popular Sovereignty Explained

Teal ink-wash comic of Black community members organizing vigilance, legal defense and rescue in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Enforcement, Resistance and Anthony Burns

Lime and violet crayon comic of a Wilmot Proviso scroll stamped not enacted using a megaphone to symbolize its impact on debate over slavery’s expansion and Free-Soil politics.

Wilmot Proviso and Free-Soil Politics: Expansion, Labor and Policy

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