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Hand-drawn document pier connects American neutrality debates, Roosevelt and Congress, aid shipments and naval escorts with oil sanctions and Pearl Harbor.

From Neutrality Acts to Pearl Harbor

Study the Neutrality Acts to Pearl Harbor for CLEP. Compare cash-and-carry, Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter, presidential authority and war status.

Hand-drawn industrial workers open a factory door toward collective bargaining while farm and domestic workers face exclusions; a sleeping-car porter and redlined neighborhood show distinct labor and housing histories.

The CIO, Labor’s Breakthrough and the New Deal’s Exclusions

Study the CIO and New Deal labor for CLEP. Compare Flint, steel, the porters’ union, bargaining rights, Social Security exclusions and workplace safety.

Hand-drawn Roosevelt proposes extra chairs as Congress objects, while nine judicial seats, a balance scale, and a turning law-book page distinguish the failed court plan from changed economic-regulation doctrine.

The Court Fight and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937

Hand-drawn radio sound waves surround Roosevelt with distinct objections about property, redistribution, pensions, labor rights, and racial exclusion during the New Deal.

Critics of the New Deal from Left and Right

Hand-drawn Frances Perkins and community members weave a patchwork safety net for work relief, insurance, and family assistance while farm and domestic workers stand beyond its original coverage.

The Second New Deal, Social Security, and the Federal Safety Net

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

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

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