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Pencil and terracotta comic of Homer Plessy and a legal committee, two first-class tickets opening into unequal rail compartments, a courthouse and discriminatory voter registration barriers.

Disfranchisement, the Civil Rights Cases, and Plessy

Review disfranchisement, the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy for CLEP. Compare voting barriers, state action and rulings with four practice questions.

Colored-pencil comic of farmers and a worker comparing a broad reform platform at a forked road, with crop warehouses, giant silver and gold coins, and the opposing 1896 campaigns of Bryan and McKinley.

Farmers’ Alliances, Populism, and the Realignment of 1896

Study Farmers’ Alliances, Populism and the election of 1896 for CLEP. Compare the subtreasury, Omaha Platform and party coalitions with four questions.

Pastel and ballpoint comic of a farm couple balancing a fixed mortgage against more wheat, household egg and butter income, a Grange meeting and competing paper, silver and gold money.

The Money Question, Agrarian Distress, and the Grange

Fountain-pen and gouache comic of rival party organizers pulling a ribbon around a federal desk, patronage envelopes beside a civil-service exam, and customs duties, farmers and veterans pensions.

Party Stalemate, Civil Service, and the Tariff

Ink and pastel street-scene comic connecting Jane Addams and neighborhood research, settlement classes and milk service, workers and a minister, ragtime piano, a five-cent cinema and urban shopping.

Settlement Houses, the Social Gospel and Mass Culture

Architectural pencil and watercolor comic connecting a tenement cutaway and garment workshop, an electric streetcar, suburban homes and water pipes, a housing investigator and a ward captain offering coal beside a ballot.

Tenements, Streetcar Suburbs, and Political Machines

Sepia brush-pen comic of Chinese immigrants holding family correspondence and residence records, a community legal advocate and U.S.-born child, folded immigration-law barriers, and a Catholic family and contract laborer.

Chinese Exclusion, Nativism, and Immigration Law

Graphite and colored-pencil travel-journal comic contrasting a family inspection at Ellis Island with a Chinese immigrant’s detailed interview at Angel Island, joined by a steamship, letters, and luggage.

New Immigration, Ellis Island, and Angel Island

Hand-carved linocut comic showing railway and steel workers facing the different strikebreaking mechanisms of 1877, Homestead in 1892, and Pullman in 1894, including troops, barges, and a federal injunction.

The Great Strikes from 1877 through Pullman

Gouache and fountain-pen sketchbook comic comparing separate carpenter, printer, and machinist craft unions with an industrial railway union, its racial exclusion, and an inclusive Lawrence textile-worker meeting.

The AFL, Craft Unionism, Debs, and Industrial Unionism

Chalk-pastel comic of a Knights of Labor community assembly discussing cooperation and shorter hours, with separate scenes of Black labor organizing in 1869 and Atlanta washerwomen organizing in 1881.

The National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor

Blue-ink and watercolor comic of an interstate railway network unfolding across a rate ledger, an ICC commissioner, grain elevator, sugar refinery, courthouse doors, and a secret railroad rate concession.

The ICC, the Sherman Act, and the Limits of Early Regulation

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