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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

Review the transatlantic slave trade and Middle Passage with Equiano’s narrative, voyage estimates, source limits and CLEP U.S. History I practice.

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

Review Atlantic trade, mercantilism and the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663, with source comparisons, colonial effects and CLEP practice.

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

Pen-and-watercolor comic cutaway of a Puritan meetinghouse shows church worship and a town meeting above a covenant, with a woman, child and younger men outside.

Puritans in Massachusetts: Covenants, Church and Government

Charcoal collage places an enslaved mother and child between Chesapeake tobacco and lowcountry rice landscapes, beneath papers representing land, law and labor.

Plantation Regions: Family, Gender and Colonial Authority

Midnight-blue scratchboard comic contrasts a Virginia lawbook marked 1662 inherited status with a Black servant presenting a freedom petition marked 1675.

Transition to Racial Slavery: Law, Labor and Inherited Status

Colored-pencil comic shows a student comparing a 1623 servant letter with a 1676 rebel declaration, asking who is missing beside a drawing labeled Native land and security.

Indentured Servitude and Bacon’s Rebellion: Causes and Sources

Reed-pen and gouache foldout-map comic shows established Powhatan villages and corn trade beside an English fort, with tobacco fields and survey tools representing settlement expansion.

Powhatan Relations and Warfare: Trade, Land and the Wars

Wax-crayon comic uses a giant tobacco leaf as a merchant ships sail, with export cargo above and an anchor labeled land and labor below.

Jamestown, Tobacco and the Virginia Company: Growth and Failure

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