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Hand-drawn bank-vault repair scene shows Roosevelt restoring confidence, insured savings, a fireside-chat radio, conservation workers, public construction, and a struggling farm family during the First New Deal.

Banking Reform, Relief, and the First New Deal

Review the First New Deal for CLEP. Compare banking reform, relief grants, public works, farm policy and housing by instrument, beneficiary and limits.

Hand-drawn Roosevelt leads a ballot-box wagon as workers and farmers assemble mismatched puzzle wheels, while a Black family approaches an unfinished ramp representing the evolving New Deal coalition.

The Election of 1932 and the New Deal Coalition

Study the election of 1932 and New Deal coalition for CLEP. Compare campaign promises, voting shifts, racial conflicts and limits on presidential power.

Hand-drawn Hoover pumps institutional credit toward a bank, railroad, and public bridge while a family and veteran wait beneath a dripping household tap, beside the Bonus Army camp at Anacostia.

Hoover, the RFC, and the Bonus Army

Hand-drawn open prairie storybook contrasts a dust storm over exposed farmland and a migrating family with deep grass roots, contour fields, and shelterbelt trees that reduce erosion.

The Dust Bowl and the Environment of Crisis

Hand-drawn family repairs clothes and shoes and grows seedlings beside a radio, while a migration road, documentary photographer, mural painter, and folk musician connect survival with Depression culture.

Unemployment, Migration, Family Survival, and Depression Culture

Hand-drawn stock ticker sets off a spiral of dominoes showing housing weakness, bank runs, factory slowdown, unemployment, debt, the gold standard, and trade barriers as connected Depression mechanisms.

The Crash and the Causes of the Great Depression

Hand-drawn film ribbon connects a woman entering public life, a jazz trumpeter and radio audience, and a reflective expatriate writer with modern art, showing competing visions of modernity.

The New Woman, Mass Entertainment, and the Lost Generation

Hand-drawn hands lift Harlem writers, a pianist, and painter from an open book beside Garvey addressing a crowd with a Black Star Line ship, contrasting cultural self-definition and mass political organization.

The Harlem Renaissance and Garveyism

Hand-drawn courtroom classroom shows Darrow questioning Bryan beside teacher Scopes, a fossil, an open Bible, and a judge holding a separate conviction paper and law book, with radio coverage below.

Fundamentalism, Modernism, the Scopes Trial, and Education

Hand-drawn locked barrel leaks into an underground bootlegging network as an agent investigates, a temperance advocate watches, and repeal supporters lift a constitutional paper beside a state-controlled gate.

Prohibition, Organized Crime, and the Twenty-first Amendment

Hand-drawn giant official stamp shadows unequal immigration doorways as families and a Black woman hold identity papers, a clerk questions biased rankings, and Smith and Hoover appear above an election crowd.

Quotas, Eugenics, the Second Klan, and the Election of 1928

Hand-drawn diplomats balance miniature warships, connect banks and factories through credit, and sign a treaty on a fragile paper bridge over rough seas, illustrating interwar cooperation and weak enforcement.

Interwar Diplomacy: Washington Treaties to Kellogg-Briand