1. Brooks-Sumner Incident, 1854
Preston Brooks
Charles Sumner
Brooks-Sumner Incident, 1854

2. John C. Fremont
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Election of 1856

3. Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln, Republican
John Breckenridge, Southern Democrat
Dred Scott
John Bell, Constitutional Union Party
Stephen Douglas, Northern Democrat
Election of 1860

4. Union Draft Poster, c. 1862

5. Democratic “Copperhead” Pamphlet, 1864

6. Lincoln
McClellan
Election of 1864

7. Democratic View of the Freedman’s Bureau

8. Pardon: “Shall I Trust These Men…”
1865

9. Franchise: “…And Not This Man?”
1865

10. Johnson’s Impeachment
Andrew Johnson
Johnson’s Impeachment

11. 1868 Election

12. Ulysses S. Grant’s Administration

13. Black Republican politicians White Democratic politician

14. “The Ignorant Vote:
Honors are Easy”
1876

15. 1876 Election

16. Compromise of 1877

17. Thomas Nast: Self-Portrait