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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

Explain the rise of the Republican Party and Whig collapse, compare the 1856 and 1860 platforms, and review with CLEP U.S. History I practice.

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

Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas through popular sovereignty, disputed elections, primary sources and CLEP U.S. History I practice.

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
Yellow and forest-green pencil comic of an expressive household account book beside a historical house cutaway showing women’s farm production, outwork and boardinghouse labor.

Women’s Work, Gender and Household Economies Before the Civil War
Copper and blue woodcut comic of a Black-run printing workshop, school and church, showing community institutions and the continued struggle against racial exclusion before the Civil War.

Free Black Communities and Racial Exclusion Before the Civil War
Blue ballpoint comic of an overwhelmed street water pump beside crowded brick housing and an open drainage channel, illustrating antebellum urban growth and lagging public services.

Antebellum Urban Growth and Public Health: Cities, Water and Cholera
Cherry-red and green pencil comic of a rabbit history student examining an hourglass labelled proposed 21-year wait, illustrating nativist efforts to delay citizenship and political voice.

Nativism and the Know-Nothing Movement: Religion, Voting and Power
Hand-drawn comic of Irish and German travel trunks, letters, tickets, and relatives connecting port, farm, and workshop scenes.

Irish and German Immigration: Famine, Forty-Eighters and Community
Hand-drawn comic of a student lifting a confident Manifest Destiny parchment to reveal choices, opposition, and consequences.

Manifest Destiny as Ideology and Debate: Expansion, Choice and Criticism
Hand-drawn comic of a surprised gold pan with migration, markets, and California statehood clues during the Gold Rush and Compromise of 1850.

Gold Rush Migration and the Compromise of 1850: California Statehood
Hand-drawn comic of a historian magnifying an abstract borderlands map to reveal residents, farms, and existing land claims.

Expansion, Native Dispossession and Borderlands: Maps and Land Claims
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