The correct answer is C) the Reconstruction Era.
Indeed, during the Reconstruction Era (1863-1877); white Southerners were especially aggravated and oppose to the occupation of the South by the Union army, the enfranchisement of African-American citizens and the election of African Americans to positions of political power that gave them ascendancy over white southerners. The Democrats had not won an election during 20 years and back then, the Democratic party, notably its southern Bourbon Democrat component was the party of slavery, racial discrimination and social (and later legal) discrimination towards black Americans.
The 1876 presidential elections saw Republican Candidate Rutherford Hayes oppose Northern Democrat Samuel Tilden for the office of POTUS. Tilden won the popular vote as well as the electoral vote but the fact was that four states in the South had inconclusive results due to death threats and intimidation towards African American voters who always voted Republican.
There was a constitutional crisis and southerners were threatening with armed insurrection if Hayes was sworn in as POTUS. During meetings behind closed doors, a deal was struck. Democrats accepted Hayes as president and in exchange occupation Union troops were withdrawn from the South, leaving southern African Americans vulnerable to reprisals, discrimination, social segregation and subjugation by Southern white democrats. This was called the 1877 Compromise which effectively ended the Reconstruction Era. This situation is the one described by this cartoon. Tilden was not sworn in as president and the blood of another southern insurrection was not spilled.
<span>The military was not strong enough to protect Europe.
The Vikings were a formidable force, and the English (in the example given) were not organized or managed well enough to withstand such invasions. An English scholar, Alcuin, who became a key figure in Charlemagne's court, even went so far as to say that the Vikings were a manifestation of God's wrath against the immorality of the European people.
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Worshiping more than one god. There is only one god in the religions. You could marry someone of another faith, and it "is allowed" to convince someone to change religions. Also, you can, of course, trade food for tools.
Answer: The first time was a country trying to take ours away from us, The second time was an aircraft bombed our ship at Pearl Harbor (you are not forgotten).
