Political Cartoon Analysis

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Political Cartoon Analysis: The Gilded Age Date Per.

This is the Senate

People’s Entrance Of the Monopolists
1. List 8 objects/figures that you
By the Monopolists and
For the Monopolists!
see in the cartoon.
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The Bosses of the Senate 

2. What is the title of the cartoon?

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3. Which objects do you think are symbols?

4. Where does this scene take place?

5. Who do the men in the back of the room represent?

6. How does the People’s Entrance differ from the Monopolists’ Entrance? Why do you that is?

7. Describe what is happening in the cartoon.

8. What point is the political cartoonist trying to make?

9. Do you think this is an effective political cartoon? Why or why not?

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Political Cartoon Analysis: The Gilded Age Date Per.

This is the Senate

People’s Entrance Of the Monopolists
1. List 8 objects/figures that you
By the Monopolists and
For the Monopolists!
see in the cartoon.


The Bosses of the Senate 

2. What is the title of the cartoon? The Bosses of the Senate

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3. Which objects do you think are symbols? Answers Vary: The moneybags (monopolists’ body), the men in the back (monopolists),
the wide-open Monopolists’ Entrance., the closed People’s Entrance, the sign, the small senators, etc.

4. Where does this scene take place? The Senate

5. Who do the men in the back of the room represent? The Monopolists/Industrialists.

6. How does the People’s Entrance differ from the Monopolists’ Entrance? Why do you that is? The Monopolists’ Entrance is wide-
open, while the People’s Entrance is barred shut. This represents how the monopolists are given access to the
Senate, but the people (and their interests) are locked out/ignored.

7. Describe what is happening in the cartoon. Monopolists in the back of the Senate are watching over what the Senators are
doing. They have easy access and are looming over the small senators. The American people are locked out .

8. What point is the political cartoonist trying to make? The cartoonist is trying to show how the Senate is being
controlled by the wealthy monopolists/trusts, while the people have no say.

9. Do you think this is an effective political cartoon? Why or why not?

Answers Vary

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