14. Document Project 14: Testing and Contesting Freedom

Quiz for Document 14.8 Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874

Quiz for Document 14.8: Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State, 1874

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What was the message Thomas Nast attempted to convey in “Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State”?

Freedmen are causing too much disruption in society.

The United States was losing control of its representatives.

Perhaps blacks should be returned to second-class citizenship.

Freedmen did not make good congressmen.

2. Who was likely to benefit the most from the publication of this image?

Radical Republicans

Scalawags

Carpetbaggers

Southern Democrats

3. What did Thomas Nast imply by the question mark in his title, “Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State”?

He was unsure of the meaning of the word.

He questioned whether the South was reconstructed.

He did not want to anger the federal government.

He was hinting at a particular state.

4. How does Nast depict the black leaders in his illustration?

Dressed in poor clothing

Chained as slaves

Well-dressed but acting out

Caricatured insultingly

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