Interpreting Reconstruction Cartoons | A Biography of America

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Reconstruction abolition African Americans African-Americans political cartoons Thomas Nast Annenberg Learner WGBH
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History-Social Science The Arts
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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Interpreting Reconstruction Cartoons | A Biography of America

After the Civil War, African Americans faced numerous assaults upon their newly won political rights.  Both Southerners and Northerners used a variety of extra-legal means to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting. This annotated image from A Biography of America explains the references employed by the cartoonist Thomas Nast in his 1868 cartoon, "This is a White Man's Government."
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