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Colin Brown and John Sabino

This comic represents Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was an industrialist from Scotland. He was also in the establishment in many libraries. When he was younger he was interested in libraries. This comic shows that when he was a young child he was very interested in libraries. Cornelius Vanderbilt started off as a rail line owner. He then started to migrate to shipping on rivers. As show in the picture he is riding the trains showing that they are supporting him. The trains are named after popular rivers such as the Hudson river. This shows that he also used the waterways to ship goods and support him.



This Comic represents J. P. Morgan. J. P. Morgan was a banker. He was one of the people credited with restoring the national economy. In this comic, the bear represents the economy, with a soar throat and the wet eyes and fever, which meant that the economy was in trouble. J. P. Morgan represent the doctor figuring out what is wrong with the economy.

Boss Tweed was a political figure who was corrupt. He put people in jail just so he would look like he was doing his job. However these people would "escape". This cartoon shows Tweed taking in children and putting them into jail, but telling them that it is okay and they will be out of jail soon. This comic was meant to inform readers about how corrupt Boss Tweed.

This is a caricature of Thomas Nast. He was a German American. He was a famous cartoonist back in the 1860s. This cartoon is a self picture of himself. He is sharpening a pencil, which was his main instrument when making his cartoons. John D. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry. He was the first billionaire in America. In this comic it shows how Rockefeller is dressed like a prince this shows how rich he is. He is also standing on standard oil showing how superior his oil was compared to standard oil. On his head there is a crown made up of oil tankers showing how the oil made him a king. This comic represents social darwinism. Social Darwinism is the competition between a company and its competitors. This comic shows a large company. The boot is showing that they have beaten their competitors and are kicking them out. The people flying away are the competitors, losing their jobs and stores to the better companies.

The Sherman Antitrust Act is an act that prevents business owners from monopolizing in the US and other countries. It made it a felony to monopolize or conspire to monopolize. This picture shows what this act was meant to prevent people from doing. In this picture it shows a man and he is on top of a standard oil monopoly and wearing a crown. This shows how he is monopolizing standard oil and he is in complete power. He is also holding up the earth showing how he controls the world because he has monopolized an important resource.

This is a recent cartoon about Barack Obama. He just was elected president, but this was before he was elected. He was running against John McCain and the republicans considered him to have flaws. These flaws consisted of being unpresidential and many other items. Obama tried to become more presidential and this is a funny way of making him look more presidential.

This picture shows a car salesman selling cars. The sign reads "New Cars buy the car your taxes paid for". This is refering to the bailout for car companies. Our taxes are bailing out car companies so it is like we are paying for the cars that we didn't even buy. The man selling the cars is smoking a sugar and wearing a hawian shirt showing how relaxed and well off he is. He has goten a bailout so all he has to do is sit back and relax.  This is a picture of George W. Bush. This was when he took a trip to Europe. In this cartoon, Bush portrays a monkey, which many cartoonist portrayed him as. He is showing stupidity when he says 'Is this Yurp?' when it is correctly pronounced Europe. He also says many other stupid comments.