Political Cartoons
What is happening in this cartoon? Whom do the bandits represent? Why? What is Uncle Sam's reaction to what is happening? What is the significance of the image of President McKinley in the smoke of Uncle Sam's cigar? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- anarchist attacking sam - mexicans - outraged - he was assinated by leon Czolgosz - negative because immigrants does not want gov't
who does the man wearing the hat represent? the man with the pigtail? The man being eaten? what is the great fear that the artist refers to in the caption? how does the cartoon represent that fear? what does the artist see as the end result of the fear? how does the cartoon depict that end result? what is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- hat= irish pigtail= chinese man= uncle sam - uncle sam being swallowed by foreigners/ immigrants - negative/ bad view
What are the ships dumping on the Statue of Liberty's island? What is the statue thinking? Why? What is ironic, perhaps even hypocritical, about the statue's reaction? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- immigrants - she doesn't like immigrants "junking up" her island - plaque says "we welcomed healed masses until the arrive" - negative
What is happening in this cartoon? Why have the people in the holes set traps? How are the immigrants reacting? What are the police doing? Why do you think they are depicted as they are? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- immigrants arriving at Castle Garden, those waiting are setting traps for them - to con immigrants, seem saddened "who to trust" - nothing/ watching; they had no power - pity the situation on toward immigrants
What is happening in this cartoon? What do the written notices on the walls say? To which legislative act do you think they refer? What fear is expressed in this cartoon? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- the chinese and NA looking at posters - "the chinese must go" the chinese exclusion act - foreigners are not wanted - negative
What is happening in this cartoon? How is Uncle Sam portrayed? What is he holding? Which of the people on Uncle Sam's list were born in the United States? Why are they depicted as immigrants? What is the meaning of the sign hanging on the Statue of Liberty? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- uncle sam holding a document of "threatning immigrants" - not wanting immigrants, a list of immigrants - abraham lincoln - "a joke" - negative
What is happening in this cartoon? The sign above Uncle Sam reads: "U.S. Ark of Refuge." What is Uncle Sam offering the immigrants? Why? What might the figures in the clouds in the upper right represent? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- uncle sam letting immigrants stay at a refuge - ? - europe "darkside/evil" - positive welcomed
What is happening in this cartoon? Who is parting the waters? Do you know what Biblical figure he represents? Who do the people walking between the waves represent? What do the waves represent? How is Europe represented? The United States? Why? What is the artist's attitude toward immigrants?
- uncle sam parting water of oppression and in tolerance - uncle sam'; moses - immigrants; oppression and tolerance that immigrants faced - by darkness/ devil; us= light and liberty and freedom - us is the land of welcomed refuge for immigrants escaping harsh treatment abroad
