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AJ and Connor Vanin



Boss Tweed was a very shady man. He stole about $200 million from NYC taxpayers. That is about $1.5 billion in todays dollars. You could say he had money on his mind.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was an entrepreneur. He was in charge of major railroads throughout the United States. That is him on the left straddling the two trains. He wanted to own the Erie Railroad, but the owner would not sell it to him. This became known as the Erie War. That is the owner on the right.

J.P. Morgan was a very good businessman. He was very rich, and he owned many many companies. He also helped merge two companies into what is now General Electric. He was a very powerful man. The big jug that he is drinking from is his monopoly, and the small jug he is adding to the drink is very small. This shows how little competition there was for him. Here it shows how she is saying that evolution and natural selection is a lie and on the other side it is saying that God wants people to fend for themselves. This shows the hypocrisy in today's world.



He did not want slavery to end. This shows how he forced slavery upon some people who opposed it. You can see a former slave being pushed down the throat of someone who doesn't want a slave.



Andrew Carnegie took regular vacations to Scotland. He gave a lot of money to universities for them to have free education. He's wearing a skirt to represent Scotland and he's pouring money down onto a form that says free university education Scotland.

This cartoon shows that the large tree is the federal spending. It also shows that President Obama is cutting spending, but it is a very small cut when compared to the overall spending.

The Drug Cartels in Mexico are violent people. They are killing many innocent people in the country. This is represented by the skulls falling out of the pinata labeled Mexico.

People now drink a lot more than they used too. Alcohol causes people to act like animals. In this cartoon, the man turns from a monkey to a human and then finds alcohol and turns back into a monkey.