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Hand-drawn colonial assemblymen hold the governor’s salary purse strings while he holds royal instructions; a customs official continues work nearby.

Colonial Government and Salutary Neglect: Powers and Practice

Explain colonial government and salutary neglect, assembly powers, governors’ vetoes and political limits. Compare Massachusetts charters with CLEP practice.

Linocut-style comic shows a colonial press sending reason, observation, and debate toward a shared newspaper reading, with a magnifying glass and prism.

Enlightenment and Print Culture: Ideas, Franklin and Zenger

Explore Enlightenment and print culture, Locke’s consent argument, Franklin’s library and the Zenger trial. Compare sources with CLEP U.S. History I practice.

Brush-pen comic depicts an itinerant colonial preacher with interested New Lights and skeptical Old Lights, showing differing responses to revival preaching in the 1730s and 1740s.

First Great Awakening: Revival, New Lights and Social Limits

Hand-lettered graphite and gouache illustration of a Black elder sharing oral memory with a child, with a constrained rice-plantation landscape beyond the window.

Enslaved Community, Culture and Resistance: Agency and Limits

Chalk and conte illustration contrasts shipping records and an Atlantic slave ship with a dignified symbolic portrait and testimony notebook, emphasizing scale and lived experience.

Transatlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage: Sources and Scale

Teal and orange marker comic shows a puzzled merchant ship at a customs desk, Navigation Acts paperwork, and overlapping routes among several harbors.

Atlantic Trade and Mercantilism: Navigation Acts Explained

Oil-pastel paper-model metaphor contrasts Pennsylvania’s 1682 Frame of Government and toleration with the 1737 Walking Purchase and a surveying shadow of dispossession.

Quaker Pennsylvania: Toleration, Diversity and Its Limits

Hand-drawn New Amsterdam market comic shows a frazzled merchant and waiting traders beside a giant company-power account book, contrasting commerce with unequal rights.

Dutch New Netherland: Commerce, Diversity and Unequal Rights

Ballpoint-style comic depicts household weaving and dairying alongside a man carrying fish and timber, with a compact coastal town and shipyard beyond the doorway.

New England Towns: Family, Schools and the Mixed Economy

Violet-ink comic juxtaposes Anne Hutchinson addressing Massachusetts magistrates with Roger Williams approaching Rhode Island, beside a symbolic key labeled conscience.

Religious Dissent in Colonial America: Conscience and Authority

Pen-and-watercolor comic cutaway of a Puritan meetinghouse shows church worship and a town meeting above a covenant, with a woman, child and younger men outside.

Puritans in Massachusetts: Covenants, Church and Government

Charcoal collage places an enslaved mother and child between Chesapeake tobacco and lowcountry rice landscapes, beneath papers representing land, law and labor.

Plantation Regions: Family, Gender and Colonial Authority

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