Which of the following factors most likely influenced the views Thomas Nast expresses in the political cartoon The Union as It Was? A. The establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau to provide economic aid to the South
B. The efforts of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson to readmit Southern states to the Union
C. The failures of Reconstruction efforts to protect freed African Americans in the South
D. The passage of the 1866 Civil Rights Act aimed at protecting African Americans legal rights