This cartoon by A. B. Frost was published in Harper's Weekly in 1867. "OF COURSE HE WANTS TO VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET" Democratic Reformer: "You're free as air, ain't you? Say you are, or I'll blow your head off."
Based on this cartoon, Frost would have agreed with which assessment of the South during Reconstruction?
1. Ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments allowed African Americans to achieve essential political gains.
2. Vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan were unsuccessful in suppressing voter rights and stopping African Americans from voting.
3. White men ignored federal laws that extended voting rights and continued to manipulate society for their own gain.
4. The division of the South into military districts allowed former Union soldiers to control election outcomes.