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Brush-pen comic centered on a stopwatch and a worker being timed at a fixed machine station, with craft work, women sewing and typing, household piecework, and a child beside textile spindles and a schoolbook.

Deskilling, Taylorism, Child Labor, and Women’s Wage Work

Review deskilling, Taylorism, child labor and women’s wage work for CLEP. Compare productivity, household labor and nursing with four practice questions.

Violet-ink and watercolor comic of a Gilded Age public debate, with a balance scale comparing industrial wealth and public institutions, a philanthropist offering a library plan, and critics studying land and cooperative housing.

Social Darwinism, the Gospel of Wealth, and Their Critics

Compare Social Darwinism, Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth and their critics for CLEP. Review philanthropy, land taxation and status with four questions.

Hand-drawn industrial cutaway comic showing Carnegie’s integrated steel operations, Rockefeller’s oil refineries and transport network, and Morgan’s financial reorganization and board control, with workers and railways connecting the systems.

Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Business Consolidation

Hand-drawn chalk comic comparing horizontal ownership of rival refineries with vertical ownership of a mine, railway, steel furnace, and sales depot, plus investors transferring control to trustees.

Corporations, Trusts, and Vertical versus Horizontal Integration

Indigo-ink and gouache comic connecting steel production, a refrigerated freight train, telephone operators, electric streetcars, a generating station, and a rural family choosing goods from a mail-order catalog.

The Second Industrial Revolution and the National Market

Charcoal and watercolor comic of a Black sharecropping family examining a merchant’s account book, a crop-debt loop linking supplies and cotton, growing mills and railways, and a separate convict-leasing mine scene.

Sharecropping, the Crop-Lien System, Convict Leasing, and the New South

Colored-pencil and sienna-ink comic of a western watershed linking diverse cowboys and longhorns, a railhead, industrial mine and irrigation ditches, with surveyors studying a water map and a Native family beside an established home.

Cattle, Mining, Water, and the Frontier Thesis

Graphite and watercolor comic of a Native parent and boarding-school child holding a family letter, Carlisle in the distance, and a community representative pointing to an allotment map beside a treaty document.

Assimilation, Carlisle, and the Dawes Severalty Act

Soft-pastel comic illustration of a Lakota family holding a homeland map, buffalo herds, a reservation agency, and a frontier Army vignette, exploring Plains warfare and federal reservation policy.

Plains Warfare, Reservations, and the Destruction of the Buffalo

Linocut and colored-pencil comic showing homesteaders examining a land claim, a farmer comparing grain and freight costs, and Chinese railroad workers connecting farms to nineteenth-century markets.

Homesteads, Railroads, and the National Market

Ink-wash and charcoal comic of a Black teacher and voter, threatened polling, the Panic of 1873, narrowed federal remedies, and troops leaving a southern statehouse during Reconstruction’s retreat.

White Counterrevolution, Judicial Retreat, and the Compromise of 1877

Textured gouache comic of a Black elected representative and civic coalition, with scenes of public schooling, Black men voting, and federal enforcement of voting rights during Reconstruction.

Reconstruction Governments, Black Officeholding, and Federal Enforcement