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Hand-drawn assembly-line car and eager consumers sit above a cutaway floor supported by payment coupons and a wage envelope, with a struggling farmer and coal miner showing uneven prosperity.

Fordism, Consumer Credit, and Weakness beneath the Boom

Study Fordism and consumer credit for CLEP History II. Compare mass production, conditional pay, installment buying and uneven growth with four questions.

Hand-painted comic policy desk with budget ledgers, voluntary business cooperation, tax-cut scissors and a tariff gate, illustrating Republican normalcy in the 1920s.

Republican Governance, Tax Policy, and Normalcy

Review Republican governance and normalcy for CLEP: budgets, taxes, Hoover, farm vetoes and Teapot Dome. Compare policies in four practice questions.

Ink-and-gouache comic of a red magnifying glass distorting a peaceful worker, with Seattle strike milk delivery and a civil-liberties lawyer, illustrating fear and evidence in the Palmer Raids.

Strikes, the First Red Scare, and the Palmer Raids

Colored-pencil comic of Wilson pushing a treaty-paper peace dove toward skeptical senators while European diplomats tug ribbons, illustrating Versailles and the League ratification fight.

The Fourteen Points, Versailles, and the League Fight

Watercolor comic panorama linking an escorted troopship, weary American soldiers and an eleven oclock watch to a nurse, injured veteran and welcoming family after the armistice.

The AEF, the Armistice, and the Human Cost of War

Handmade screenprint comic of women building a ballot-box bridge through organizing, picketing and peace activism, with a Black suffragist confronting a separate registration gate.

Women, Suffrage, and Wartime Social Change

Charcoal-and-chalk comic of a Black family, porter and returning soldier traveling from southern farmland toward northern industry, with question-mark tracks and a housing barrier.

The Great Migration, Black Soldiers, and the Red Summer

Blue-ballpoint and orange-marker comic linking a theater speaker, postal stamp blocking newspapers and courthouse gavel pressing a speech balloon, illustrating wartime persuasion and restrictions.

Propaganda, Wartime Civil Liberties, and Schenck

Wax-crayon comic of workers turning interlocking gears for copper production, freight trains, food conservation, bonds and labor arbitration during First World War mobilization.

Mobilizing the Economy and the Home Front

Reed-pen comic of Wilson balancing above the Atlantic between a British trade blockade, a German U-boat and a question-mark telegram, illustrating pressures on American neutrality.

Neutrality, Submarine Warfare, and American Entry

Gouache comic of the four 1912 candidates around a ballot-box signpost, with reform tools, factory safety and closed doors confronting a woman professional and Black employee.

The Election of 1912 and New Freedom: Reform and Limits

Colored-pencil comic of Roosevelt refereeing a coal dispute above a warming family, food inspection, railroad regulation and a debate over forest conservation and preservation.

Roosevelt’s Square Deal, Consumer Protection, and Conservation