In the late 19th century, the most effective way to reach people was in newspapers and magazines. One of the most creative ways to critique the government and point out issues in America was using cartoons.
For this week's blog, do a Google search on "Gilded Age Political Cartoons". Find one you think is interesting and do some research on it. Figure out who drew it, when it was drawn and what it means.
For the comment section, answer the following prompts.
1-Who drew your cartoon?
2-Which magazine/newspaper published it?
3-When was it published?
4-Which Gilded Age issue did it address? (Business, Immigration, Politics etc.)
5-Describe what is in the cartoon and what it mean.
You need to post the image in your comments OR paste a link so I can look up the cartoon.
Remember to reach at least 200 words as you are answering the prompts.
“The reason of the Indian outbreak” is a political cartoon. It was published in 1890. This cartoon is about the westward migration of America during the Gilded Age. The Cartoon shows how low the Native American were treated, they were stolen from, mistreated, forced to reservations and starved. The poor Native Americans had to go on corrupted reservations were they were mistreated. A lot of the federal money targeted from these reservations, agents doled out only "starvation rations" to Indians, because of the actions that the settlers had towards the Indian the Native Americans ended up acting up and fighting for their rights. We do not know the author for this image, but as I said it was published in 1890 on December 20th.
ReplyDeleteI found this image in a website called, Library of Congress. This article addresses immigration and politics. First of all, immigration this is shown by the people(settlement, Americans) moving into the land that belonged to the Native Americans and then politics is also played in the picture because the government wanted to be owners of the land that was no theirs. I honestly like cartoon characters because it’s another way to express your feelings and how life is.
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ReplyDelete1. The political cartoon I chose to research and analyze was created by Thomas Nast. He was known for making great political cartoons and for not holding anything back when creating them.
ReplyDelete2. This article appeared in the New York Times newspaper! I find this very interesting considering how we still have and know this newspaper today. Its appearance in the New York Times shows its relevance and popularity during this time in history.
3. This political cartoon was published in 1933 on the eleventh of May. Thomas Nast must have been extremely happy, satisfied, and joyful when his cartoon made it into the newspaper, and a very popular one at that. Getting his work published would have probably made him feel accomplished because he could now share his point with a huge audience and spread his beliefs.
4. This creation from Thomas Nast was created to address the big Gilded Age issue of political corruptness.
5. The cartoon I researched is a picture of Boss Tweed with a moneybag for a head, and its title reads "Boss Tweed as Moneybag". At the bottom of the cartoon it reads "The Brains", and I believe Thomas Nast included this bit of text in order to mock Tweed. Overall, this cartoon displays how Boss Tweed was a very corrupt politician, and how he primarily cared about money over everything else. People thought this was very selfish of him and unfair. (Word Count: 238)
Eric Badger
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ink-clink-cartoons-send-boss-tweed-jail-article-1.2463810
I decided to choose the Guilded Age cartoon Tournament Of Today for my blog for this week, because I found it really interesting looking and wanted to learn about it as well. The cartoon Tournament Of Today was created by a guy named Friedrich Graetz. The cartoon was published by Keppler & Schwarzmann in New York on August 1, 1883. The cartoon tournament of today was addressed as business in the Gilded age issue. In this business cartoon two people are on their horses in an arena where they are jousting. One of these people were labeled as a Monopoly and the other person was labeled as a labor. The one portrayed as Monopoly was on a locomotive with a gold horse thing on top of that with the guy on top of that in gold armor with a shield and a long jousting stick with spear like looking point on the end of it pointed at the other person. The one portrayed as Labor was on a small skinny horse with no armor just a flannel shirt with worn out jeans bare feet and a small mallet in his hand and what looks like a paper hat on his head. (201 words)
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For my blog I did my political carton on one that can be called “The Brains” this drawing was done by Thomas Nast in the 1871. This carton was seen all around New York. The meaning behind this carton was all about Boss Tweed and the corruption he had caused all through Mew York at the time along with the Tammy Society. In this cartoon drawing you can tell the man has a money bag for a face showing how Boss Tweed was and he choices. Th carton drawing was to help discuss the politics going on at the time and all the mess that Boss Tweed had made happen and go on during this time period. This drawing has a big fat man in nice clothes with a bag of money where his face and neck should be. The carton was extremely popular and laughable I guess you could say by the way Thomas Nast had drawn it all out for the world to see. All together Nast drew this carton for a purpose and wanted to make things clear for everyone to see with his drawings dueling this time (201)
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1. My cartoon was made by Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast has made many political cartoons. He is one of the major creators of these cartoons. Thomas Nast has many great cartoons, many of them were on Boss William M. Tweed in New York City in the 1870’s.
ReplyDelete2. Harper’s weekly the one who published my cartoon ”Throwing Down the Lader by Which They Rose”. Harper Weekly was a very big magazine company, and they distributed nation wide. Many magazines competed in big cities to offer different views.
3.My cartoon ”Throwing Down the Lader by Which They Rose” was published in July 23, 1870
4.The Chinese we are starting to have more restrictions to enter the United States. They started to do this because people just frowned upon immigrants.
5. The cartoon is about the Chinese being restricted from coming here to the United States of America. This lead to the Chinese Exclusion act being made in 1882 and did not allow the Chinese to come here for 10 years. When the exclusion expired they extended it for another 10 years in the form of the Geary act. This extension was made permanent in 1902. They then added that you have to register and obtain a certificate of residence, and with out that you face deportation.
https://reimaginingmigration.org/analyzing-anti-immigrant-attitudes-in-political-cartoons/
Thomas Nast drew the cartoon “Boss Tweed”, to talk about William M. Tweed who played a big role in politics in the 20th century. The cartoon was published by The New York Times in 1871 which talked about all the politics and stuff going on in the world in this time period. The New York Times published this because of the leaked financial reports which began the downfall of Boss Tweed. The cartoonist showed the unloyalty between tweed and others which shocked the nation. Thomas Nast gained fame by drawing cartoons during the Civil War. Nast objective was to try to bring down tweed which worked pretty well. Tweed took over Tammy Hall which was the Democratic Party Machine. This Machine Dominated most of New York politics and convinced people all over the world. Tweed became powerful by serving a term in Congress in the 1850’s and by serving in Congress came to a lot of fame. In the election of 1868, the voting in New York was suspect. It was charged that the Tammy Hall workers messed with the voting count in the election which is considered cheating. The Democratic nominee lost that year to Ulysses Grant. Tweed had full control of Tammy Hall if he wanted a Governor to win they won he was a powerful man in New York and he knew it.
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ReplyDelete1. Thomas Nast was a brilliant cartoon artist. He was actually given the name “Father of the American Cartoon”.Which is funny because he was actually born in Germany and didn’t move to New York until he was only a child. He didn’t stay in school long and dropped out when he was only 14 years old. He wasn’t really get into the whole art thing until after he dropped out.(72 words)
2. Harper’s weekly actually published Thomas “Under the Thumb” cartoon when he was 31 years old. It was published in June of 1871.Thomas had always favored the Union in his cartoons.(30)
3. The cartoon,” Under the Thumb” by Thomas Nast, was published by Harper’s Weekly in June of 1871.(17)
4.The reason Thomas Nast was to expose Boss Tweed and show how biased he was. Boss Tweed once said,” Well, what are you going to do about it”. Thomas never let up on Boss Tweed after saying that.Boss Tweed took advantage of his power and money and quoted that statement multiple times. .(54)
5.Boss Tweed’s thumb was squishing New York while “Happy” New Jersey was a free state.Also known as the most innocent of states. The thumb was Boss Tweed’s and was mocking New York saying,” Well what are you going to do about it?”(40 words)
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1. Thomas Nast drew this political cartoon of William “Boss” Tweed. Nast was born in Germany and was an editorial cartoonist. He is called the “Father of the American Cartoon.” He gained attention and fame after drawing patriotic cartoons during the Civil War. Lincoln considered him very useful when he drew cartoons while Lincoln was running for the election. (58)
ReplyDelete2. The people who published this cartoon was the New York Times. They published this in 1871, which caused the downfall of Boss Tweed. (23)
3. The political cartoon was published in 1871. When “Boss” Tweed was the very center of the power for the Tammany Hall, Nast and the New York Times began to start focusing on bringing Tweed down. (35)
4. The Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party machine. During the mid 19th century, the Tammany Hall began to dominate all of New York’s politics and eventually the city’s real government. The issue during this was for the election of 1868. People had suspected that the voting in New York was incorrect. They later found out that the Tammany Hall had workers somehow manage to inflate the votes by naturalizing a big number of immigrants who “voted” towards the Democratic Party. (80)
5. In this cartoon, it shows how big of a person Tweed was and how he seemed to be as a leader and everyone was by his side. But when the political cartoons came out people started to notice things about Tweed. (41)
Word Count : 242
https://www.thoughtco.com/thomas-nasts-campaign-against-boss-tweed-4039578
1) The political that I chose was created by Andrew Carnegie. He was a successful business man and gave money to colleges for great education and made libraries for people to use.
ReplyDelete2) This cartoon was published in the Puck magazine cartoon, which I think is really fascinating.
3) This political cartoon was created in 1903 by Louis Dalrymple.
4) This political cartoon was a Gilded age issue in the business after Andrew Carnegie sold his Steel company.
5) Part one: In the picture Andrew Carnegie is giving money out to the country holding $100,000,000 dollars in the sack, while wearing a Scottish uniform handing out the money for “The Public Good.” Part two:Befroe this cartoon was created he had come to America with his family from Scotland. When he was younger he worked in Cotton mills, telegraph companies, and on rail roads. When he got older he invented a new way of producing steel in America, and his businesses money sky rocketed into millions of dollars. As he had his business for a long time with ups and downs, in Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh and Homestead. He then sold his company for millions of dollars to J.P. Morgan. He developed himself into a philanthropist, then building Carnegie Institute of Technology(CIT) for $2 million dollars in 1901, and created a library and bought books to fill it up. It’s a interesting story of how Carnegie became a philanthropist in the industry. (243)
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Gilded Age Cartoon:
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* Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, drew the comic and this link takes you to what he’s about and all the other things he’s made.
*Keppler and Schwarzmann, with the help of New York published this cool comic.
*In 1883, February 7th was the day this comic was published.
*"The protectors of our industries." Gilded age political cartoon from 1883 depicting workers as a human wall around their bosses, keeping them safe from the rising waters of hard times and the ongoing recession.”
*In the picture, there are four businessmen on top of the “boat”. Their stomachs are money bags and the men are holding/ rubbing them firmly. They are each on top of their own personal money bag, quoting the amount of money they have, “Vanderbilt Millions”. This “boat” they are on is over heavy waves of water. The water represents the hard times, not only the people faced but also the businessman. Now, this “boat” is made of the different products that were created and the workers and their pay rate. The workers are the ones carrying this “boat” through the heavy waves of water, or the hard times the people faced. With this picture in mind, my opinion is that the workers carried the weight of their jobs and the demand of the bosses on their backs, and carried them through the hard times of the Gilded Age. (240)