We dedicate this book to everyone who helped us with it….. Andy Faith Carolyn Fuss Donna DeGroat Jamie Endahl Mary Lou Lundgren 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.