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Elena and Erin

J.P. Morgan J.P. Morgan is the best banker, ever. J.P. Morgan helped was a very successful financier. He helped todreate the US Steel Corporation, he bought many ralroads and failing businesses. This cartoon shows him luxuriously relaxing with bank papers, which symbolizes his line of work.

Present Day Cartoon Greed is everything This cartoon is showing who will be in Obama's cabinet if he is elected president. All of the characters, beside President Obama, are every greedy cartoon characters. This artist predicts that if Obama is elected president, he will spend money in a very greedy manner.

John D. Rockefeller "My Precious..." John D. Rockefeller, in this picture, is holding the white house in the palm of his hand. This man was responsible for getting America into big businesses. In the background of this cartoon is the capitol city. It looks like an oil refinery because it was meant to show the power that big businesses had over the government.

Boss Tweed Democrat: Half animal, Half man This cartoon tells us that Boss tweed was a scapegoat. He was a scapegoat for the democrats and they didn't care much for him. Boss was just a tool that they could use to make them look good and dump all there sins on.

Thomas Nast "Just chop off the hair already!" This cartoon tells us that Thomas Nast knew that immigration was hard on everyone. It was very hard on the Chinese and this was what he thought encouraged them to immigrate. Also that Chinese were not very happy where they lived and wanted to run away when they got the chance.

Sherman Antitrust act "No one goes anywhere until the fat lady stands up!" This cartoon tells us that the Sherman Antitrust act was very powerful. So powerful that everyone who was affected by it was not doing very well. It crushed anyone who was affected by it and it didn't really care about what it did.

Present Day Cartoon "Oh no! A flock of birds!" The artist of this cartoon is drawing a possible third bird-plane incident. In the window is president Obama looking out on the flock of birds going past his plane. He is obviously worried that one of the birds will be sucked into the plane's propellers.

Social Darwinism bush's Idea of running a government The reason the artist created this is to make fun of Bush. He is telling people Bush's summary of the Republican party agenda. He is also saying that because this is Bush's view of the Republican party, he will try to enforce Social Darwinism in the whole country.

Present Day Cartoon What Hilary does in the White House. In this cartoon, the artist wanted to convey that Having Hilary Clinton in as Secretary of State will cause problems for the US. The artist is saying that there will be a lot of fraud and greed. Most of this scandal will be foreign countries bribing Hilary.