Reconstruction Told Through Political Cartoons

A brand-new book – for US History!

Imagine: Your students learn all about Reconstruction by examining political cartoons!

Get ready: These cartoons will appear on your state test!

What we have done:

  • Provided all the websites with individual cartoons
  • Put them in chronological order, 1865-1877
  • Separated them into individual topics, from The Freedmen's Bureau to Jim Crow Segregation
How to use the editorial cartoons:
  • Assign them for homework!
  • Create your own powerpoints!
  • Review for your end-of-course test!
You will love these political cartoons because they
  • Define abstract terms like exodusters.
  • Personalize the people who made history: Andrew Johnson
  • Highlight the Amendments: 13th, 14th, and 15th.
  • Examine Terrorist Groups: The KKK and White Leagues