Reconstruction in Cartoons

Cartoons

• Harper’s Weekly and Puck issued scathing cartoons during Reconstruction

• Thomas Nast was one of the most famous

Black Reconstruction

Johnson’s opposition

• AJ vs. the Radical Republicans

• Impeachment of Johnson

Taking back the South

• Reconstruction or Redemption?

• Worse than Slavery?

• The Bourbons, the Redeemers, return of the Democrats

“Everything points to a Democratic victory in the fall”

Jim Crow

“This is a White Man’s Government”

A Republican form of government?

Corruption

• Grantism

• Scalawags and carpetbaggers

• $$$$ scandals