The Era of Reconstruction

CHAPTER 16

The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Figure 16.1 In this political cartoon by Thomas Nast, which appeared inHarper’s Weeklyin October 1874, the“White League” shakes hands with the Ku Klux Klan over a shield that shows a couple weeping over a baby. In the background, a schoolhouse burns, and a lynched freedman is shown hanging from a tree. Above the shield, which is labeled “Worse than Slavery,” the text reads, “The Union as It Was: This Is a White Man’s Government.”

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