Reconstruction in Cartoons
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Reconstruction in Cartoons
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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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