Objective: To examine the rise of Southern anger over Reconstruction. Do Now: Analyze the cartoon “Tis But a Change in Banners”. What is the artist trying to say about presidential candidate Horatio Seymour and the Democratic Party?

“Tis But a Change of Banners”

1868 Presidential Election

Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant, a Republican, wins the Presidential election, defeating Democrat Horatio Seymour.

1872 Presidential Election

Grant Administration Scandals  Grant presided over an era of unprecedented growth and corruption. * Credit Mobilier Scandal. * Whiskey Ring. * The “Indian Ring.”

Colored Rule in the South? Blacks in Southern Politics  Core voters were black veterans.  Blacks were politically unprepared.  Blacks could register & vote in states since  15 th Amendment guaranteed federal voting.

15 th Amendment  Ratified in  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.  The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.  Women’s rights groups were furious that they were not granted the vote!

1870 -The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, making it illegal to deny African-Americans the right to vote.

Scalawags - Southern Republicans, often viewed as traitors by other white Southerners Changes in Southern Politics * Rich planters no longer controlled Southern society.

Carpetbaggers - Northerners that moved to the South during Reconstruction looking for wealth, land, or to help the freedmen. A cartoon from the 1870s makes fun of a Northern politician. It shows him as a carpetbagger, or a Northerner who moved to the South with only what he could carry in a small bag. (At the time, traveling bags were commonly made of carpet.)

Ku Klux Klan - secret group set up in the South after the Civil War. Members terrorized primarily African-Americans, but they targeted Catholics and Jews as well.

The “Invisible Empire of the South”

The Ku Klux Klan reached its greatest strength in the 1920’s, with a membership of over three million people.

1925 Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, D.C.