quiz political cartoon components - prior knowledge - date - location where published - symbolism
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Quiz
Political Cartoon Components
- Prior knowledge- Date
- Location where published
- Symbolism
Political Cartoon Components
- Consider the following as you interpret cartoons:
- Prior knowledge- Date
- Location where published- Symbolism
- Complete an analysis for as many cartoons as possible:
- Write an interpretation- Label examples of symbolism
Redemption, 1874-1877• The Republican election victory in
1872 demonstrated the need for Southern Democrats to turn out larger numbers of white voters.
• They accomplished this through VIOLENCE while most Americans paid little attention, distracted by other issues.
• By the election of 1876, Southern Democrats had triumphed by winning local, state and national elections calling it “Redemption”
• How was this new wave of violence different from earlier ones? Attackers operated more openly
and identified themselves more closely with the Democratic Party.
Ex-Confederate soldiers attended rallies.
A military group called the White League organized the overthrow of government in New Orleans in 1874.
Redemption, 1874-1877• Weak Federal Response to this
Violence• President Grant refused to help
Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina.
• Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875• Prohibited discrimination against
Blacks in public places.• However, it had NO provision
protecting voting rights, AND courts ruled that individuals had to bring suit in court to enforce it.
• In 1883, the Supreme Court overturned the act, ruling that only states could enforce it, NOT the federal government!
• The End of Reconstruction!
Redemption, 1874-1877• The End of Reconstruction!• Election of 1876 between Democrat
Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was disputed.
• While Tilden won the popular vote, disputed vote counting in Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana left him short of the electoral vote needed to win.
• The “Compromise of 1877” resolved this:• Congress decided the issue by
allowing Hayes to become president in exchange for the removal of all federal troops from the South.
• This signaled the end of equal rights for Blacks in the south since Southern Democratic governments would likely return to power in southern states.
Sammy Tilden—Boo-Hoo! Ruthy Hayes’s got my Presidency, and he won’t give it
to me!
Redemption, 1874-1877• The End of Reconstruction!• Southern states kept the memory of
so-called “horrors” of Reconstruction alive whenever they felt their power threatened.• Textbooks, movies and other
accounts all described it in negative ways.
• The Truth?• Black authors such as John
Lynch’s “Facts of Reconstruction” and W.E.B. DuBois’ “Black Reconstruction” tried to set the record straight, but were ignored.
The Failure of ReconstructionThe Failure of Reconstruction• Economically
• Sharecropping became the new labor system in the South:
• Landlords provided a house, land, seed and credit in exchange for half their crop.• The other half was
used to pay back the loan and live.
The Failure of ReconstructionThe Failure of Reconstruction• Politically
• Supreme Court cases seriously weakened the legal protection and equality guaranteed by the 14th and 15the Amendments:
• Slaughterhouse Case 1873
• Court ruled that citizenship rights were under STATE authority and not federal.
• Cruikshank Case 1876• Court overturned the
con- victions in the Colfax, LA Massacres ruling that the Enforcement Acts did not cover acts by individuals, only by states.