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These images where made with pastels, watercolors and sharpies on watercolor paper after researching books and the internet. This is a cartoon of a carpetbagger by a famous cartoonist named Thomas Nast. He might be in the south because he wants to cheat them out of their money or be involved in southern politics. Ben This picture is of a sharecropper who is getting ready to go out to the fields for a hard day's work. He owns his own cabin. Back in the time of Reconstruction, the people had to make their own clothes and hats. Elinor This is a picture of 2 carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers were people from the north who came over to the south to buy and trade and sometimes to live in the south. They always traded things like cloths and corn, rum and wheat. Carpetbaggers always had a sack on their back that was full of things to trade. Jenny Inside Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln was quietly watching the opera from the top box. Little did he know that sixty seconds later, John Wilkes Booth would pull the trigger on his new gun. Sally Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States of America after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. There were frequent lynchings in the South but Andrew Johnson acted like nothing was happening. The Radical Republicans impeached Johnson and he came within one vote from being removed from office. He died two months later. Giles "This is it. We can't take any more. We are dropping like wild flowers in the freezing corpse of winter." These were hard times for the southerners. Hopeless, but swelling with anger, they stagger home--most collapsing of starvation or serious injury in battle. All is lost. What can they do? Kane This picture is showing slaves who are now ex-slaves. I think that the mother was taken away from her husband. The son seems as if he was whipped a thousand times a month. Both of them were worked hard with labor in the fields and the house. She is now sharecropping with her master and mistress. Cadessa This is a picture of a carpetbagger about to head to the south to squirm some money out of the southerners. Carpetbaggers are northerners that were around during the war. They traveled to business companies in the south. Acting like important businessmen, they would earn the trust of the southerners. Once they got the money to build a railroad or something like that, they would run away and go to the next business company. Aaron Segregation was from 1865 to 1950. This was the terrible separation between blacks and whites. What started the separation between blacks and whites were the Jim Crow Laws--the movement when blacks got the worst of everything. One of the worst Jim Crow Laws was that black children got a poor education. One of the other Jim Crow Laws was that blacks had to sit in the back of the bus. Here's a picture of segregation. Morgan My picture is about an ex-slave who lived in a park in the city but she is out to find her family and to make a family of her own. She is 27 years old. She wants to get an education and be a teacher. She loves animals. Joanna This is a picture of a slave escaping from his master's plantation. He is following the Drinking Gourd. There was a man called Peg Leg Joe who sang the song of freedom. The song was Follow the Drinking Gourd. Anna This is a picture of the Ku Klux Klan. They were a group of men and their horses that went around lighting crosses and killed blacks. This picture is of man in the Ku Klux Klan sitting on the masked horse and lighting a cross with a torch. Max This is a carpetbagger cheating a grocer out of his money. He says he will get the grocer 600 lbs. of beef but says the grocer has to pay him now, so the grocer pays him $100 and the carpetbagger runs off with the money not even thinking about getting him the meat. Heather The whole point of the Ku Klux Klan was to keep blacks from being first class. The veteran soldiers of the confederate side wanted to keep blacks second class even if it meant to kill them. They were flogged, lynched, or mutilated. The veteran soldiers made up the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan ran from Vermont to Georgia. Many blacks feared the Ku Klux Klan because of all the threats they made to the blacks. Some blacks were so scared they didn't vote because of all of these threats. Jeremiah

The picture above is about two men that are running from a northern prison because they just heard the news that the war was over. Finally they know how it feels to be treated like dirt. Cory This is a picture of General Lee surrendering to General Grant at Appomatox Court House in Appomatox, Virginia. Evan The Ku Klux Klan started lynching and killing when slavery ended in the south during Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan is a group of white people that dress in white robes and masks and they believe strongly in the South. You can see a drawing of the confederate flag and members of the Ku Klux Klan above. The Ku Klux Klan burns crosses in black people’s yards, bombs buildings and lynches blacks. They don’t believe black people should have the same rights as they do and still want slavery. Hunter Booker T. Washington was born in 1856 and died in 1915. He was born a slave and then bought his freedom. Booker T. attended Hampton Institute in Virginia. He became an instructor there. He is a famous African-American speaker and leader. My picture is of him at the Tuskegee Institute. Brian This is a picture of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan is and was a mysterious terrorist organization that started in the Southern states during the period of time called Reconstruction following the American Civil War and that was restarted on a wider geographic basis in the twentieth century. The original Ku Klux Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865-1866, by six ex-Confederate army officers (one of which was Nathan Bedford Forrest) who gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos, which means circle. Although the Ku Klux Klan began as a fraternal organization, its activities soon were directed against the Republican Reconstruction governments and their leaders, both black and white, who became powerful in the southern states after the Civil War. Some people think that U.S. president Warren Harding was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. They are well known as the disguised hooded Klansmen, in their white robes, posing as ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers, with their blazing torches burning large wooden crosses in a "circle", to terrorize and kill Blacks, just for the sake of being black. "We don't burn crosses, we light them", they say, "and it is a religious celebration and ceremony, not an act of desecration.” They have a very violent history, including lynching and bombings. Steve Scalawags were people who lived in the south but liked the north better. In the picture above, 3 scalawags are fighting for the north side of the country. Meredyth This picture is about a man telling ex-slaves about the Freedman's Bureau. The Freedman's Bureau is also for poor white men like the one in the corner of the picture. The Freedman's Bureau provides food, money, shelter, medicine and education. Its greatest accomplishments were in education - more than 1,000 black schools were built. Ashby Plug Ugly was a union horse. The rider was Alpheus Williams. He was an unsung hero. They fought in the Civil War. Plug Ugly lost mostly all of his tail and was badly wounded. Williams gave him up and sold him and after he sold him, Plug Ugly died. Wayne This is a picture of Richmond burning. This man just can't believe his city is in ruins. As he walks away he stands there for a while trying to believe he is free. During the Civil War the capitol was Williamsburg but was changed to Richmond for a more middle location. After the Civil War and before Reconstruction, Richmond looked alot like this, with trash and ashes everywhere. For a while, people just walked around and tried to believe that their city was in ruins. Sarajanee The picture above is about the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross in the middle of the night. They are an organization who is against blacks' rights. Normally, there would be more members at the site of the burning cross. Carter Richmond burning……. In my picture, there is a burnt down building. It got burnt in the war. It's getting rebuilt during Reconstruction. This picture is a big office building where some big meetings were held. Matt Fredrick Douglass was born in 1817 and died in 1895. He was the very first black citizen to become a part of the U.S. government. Anthony Andrew Johnson was one of three presidents impeached. He came within one vote of not being taken out of office. He got impeached because people thought he was being to easy on the south. He was president from 1865-1869. He was serving as U.S. Senator when he died. Angus Back in Reconstruction, Americans used to ride horses. They rode horses in the country and the city. They had wagons. The horses pulled them. Guns, swords, and weapons were in the wagons. Chris Abraham Lincoln's Assassination…. On Friday, April 14, 1865, outside Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth was preparing his gun. A few minutes after ten, he opened the President's box and shot Abraham Lincoln. Kaylyn This man is not happy and has been whipped a lot of times and he looks like he is hiding from his master and he is scared that he will get found by his master, go back to his place that he lived and get whipped. He doesn't know that the war is over, he still thinks that slavery is still going on and that's why he is still hiding. He's lost some of his family, parents and is hungry, cold and sick. He has no money and he doesn't have any clothes to wear and he's dirty. The marks on his hands are probably a disease and can't treat it and look like he's been picking cotton for his whole life. He looks like he's ready to die. Under his eyes are bags like he hasn't been sleeping - too tired to even lie down. Reniya Sweet Potato Pie was a widely used recipe in the 1800s it uses many spices like cinnamon and vanilla. It is mushy and brown. In the old days they used a ricer instead of a blender to mash the potatoes. Here is the recipe: Sweet Potato Pie Two pounds of potatoes will make two pies. Boil the potatoes soft; peel and mash fine through a cullender while hot; one tablespoonful of butter to be mashed in with the potato. Take five eggs and beat the yelks and whites separate and add one gill of milk; sweeten to taste; squeeze the juice of one orange, and grate one-half of the peel into the liquid. One half teaspoonful of salt in the potatoes. Have only one crust and that at the bottom of the plate. Bake quickly. Paul This is a picture of a carpetbagger choosing which way he should go, North or South. Which way do you think he's go? To the South to rip 'em off, or the plain North? The carpetbaggers would come from the North after the Civil War was fought and steal away money by saying they would do things like build railroads so the state would give their money and trust to the carpetbaggers and the carpetbaggers would run away with their money. Cody This man is black. He has been lynched. The whites have left him here to rot. He was killed on a warm September night in 1862. Termites have eaten most of his clothing. Stewart This is a picture of four ex-slaves sharecropping, picking cotton. They are out in the field doing work for a plantation owner named Mr. Johnson. They did not like him because he whipped them a lot. Brooke This is a picture of a family of free slaves sleeping in a cotton field but they think that they are still slaves. They walk by day and sleep by night. In order to eat, they have to steal bread and if they get caught they will be put in jail. Jessica Come to the Grand Opening of Big Mama's - the new restaurant in town. Come try their mouth-watering streak. Big Mama's is located on Broad Street. The owner of this restaurant is an ex-slave. Crystal My scalawag's name is Greg Blace. He has no family. He is a poor scalawag. He is 19n years old. He only has one pair of clothes. A scalawag is a person that tricks people out of their money. Jonathan This is a picture of a building shot by cannons, guns and demolished by the fires. People have to rebuild this building and many others. A few of the buildings have been totally destroyed and some just have holes in them. Nick This is a picture of a scalawag whose name is James Madison Wells. A scalawag is a person who doesn't believe in slavery. James Madison Wells and a lot of other people were scalawags for a long time. He was a southerner. Dannette A carpetbagger is a person who steals money. Also he steals jewelry and kills people. He comes from the north and comes to the south. When the war was over, the people had burned down houses and he stole money from those people whose houses were damaged cause they had money to repair the houses or because they were weak and they were scared. The carpetbaggers also killed the horses so the people couldn't ride to get away. Douglas My picture is about an ex-slave that ran away from his owner's plantation. He had a pretty hard life until he ran away. He's wearing a vest and a tie and shirt with a jacket over the top. He looks so sad in the picture. Samantha The KKK is a clan of whites that hate blacks and to scare the blacks they burn crosses in front of the blacks’ houses. The KKK hate the black because they didn’t want the blacks to be free. They wanted to keep the blacks slaves. They went to blacks and hung them and they killed some whites that thought that blacks should have their freedom. It was a secret society of whites and they didn’t show their faces. They covered their faces with white masks. They wore the white masks because they wanted to pretend they were the ghosts of Civil War soldiers. Justin Abraham Lincoln's assassination - During the third act of the play, a shadowy figure stepped into the President's box but it wasn't Lincoln's bodyguard. The mysterious man took out a pistol, aimed at Lincoln's head and shot. The man jumped out of the president's box and landed on the stage. He shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis" and ran off the stage to a horse waiting outside. At first the audience thought it was part of the play until Laura Keene cried out, "The president's is shot! The president is shot!" Mariah