Alexander Stephens was the Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865) and gave the famous speech known as "the Cornerstone Speech" where he openly enunciated the ideas on which the new government was based: the supremacy of whites over blacks. Stephens played an important role in the drafting of the new constitution and had the opportunity to present the new form of government in the speech that took place in Savannah on March 21, 1861. The Cornerstone speech played a fundamental role in some aspects of this process. the nation took shape to be. Analysis of this document and other sources will give us an idea of ​​what was really happening in the Southern states and how the response of the Northern states was important to analyze is Nast's Cartoon of Lincolns. The way Nast's cartoon portrays Lincoln is two extremes: The first image on the left shows the North's reaction to the President's inaugural address, showing him holding palm branches and wreaths of peace. The second frame, however, shows how the South viewed Lincoln, as a Roman garb and helmeted warrior standing over a defeated enemy representing the South. The second image's expressions on both Lincoln's face and the reclining man on the floor they show a sense of hatred and aggression towards someone. It is true that people were free and that black Americans became involved in the political system, but this did not last long. . After the Civil War there was the so-called “period of hope”, blacks were able to have a significant impact in shaping society, they were able to express freedom in many ways and in fact obtained those freedoms granted thanks to the 13, 14 1st and 15th amendments. But in the South, white Americans continued to argue that society had no obligations to former slaves, and the Reconstruction Act did not change much, and certainly did not guarantee freedom for all mankind. In fact, not happy with the recent amendments, new violent unions such as the KKK began to form because they believed that violence could solve the problem