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Source: Currier ves. The First Colored Senator and Representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. 18772. Collection of the US House of Representatives. Note: By the early 1870s, Northern public opinion toward Black Americans had changed. The Panic of 1873 (economic depression) greatly impacted Northem financial institutions and Western railroads. Newspapers and cartoonists, who had originally portrayed enslaved persons as hard-working and freedom-seeking, began to show Black politicians as lazy, corrupt, and of low character. This Tthogragh depicts the first Black men elected ta Congress - (from left to right) Senator Hiram Revels (Mississippi) and Representative Benjamin Turner (Alabama), Robert De Large (South Carolina), Josiah Walls (Florida), Jefferson Long (Georgia), Joseph Rainey (South Carolina), and Robert Elliot (South Carolina) Source: Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 7865-7907. Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 70017. In the fall of 1873, even the staunchly | firmly] pro-Grant and pro-freedman Boston Evening Transcript ran a letter... arguing that "the blacks, as a people, are unfitted for the proper exercise of political duties... The rising generation of ..blacks needed a period of probation and instruction; a period ... long enough for the black to have forgotten something of his condition as a slave and learned much of the true method of gaining honorable subsistence and of performing the duties of any position to which he might aspire.\" DOCUMENT ANALYSIS QUESTIONS 1. Examine the lithograph. Describe the men in the picture. 2. According to the letter from the Boston Evening Transcript, why did some people believe Black Americans were unfit to be government officials? 3. How does the letter from the Boston Evening Transcript show that racism existed in the North? Are there specific things being stated that reflect the beliefs or attitudes? 4. Why do you think public opinion in the early 1870s differed from the men pictured in the lithograph? 5. How can this document be used to answer the question, \"North or South: Who Was More Responsible for Killing Reconstruction?\