What is the title of this cartoon? 2. Who does the figure on the right symbolize? What emotion is this figure conveying?
3. Why do you think the artist, Thomas Nast, chose to hide the faces of the white supremacists?
4. Terrorism is the use of threats and violence against people and property in order to make them
meet demands they would not normally agree to. What evidence (symbols) of terrorist activity do
you see in this cartoon?
5. What does Thomas Nast mean by “worse than slavery?” Explain your answer.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

explanation:

b. shared language, culture, and ethnicity