1. Review each of the two cartoons below.
2. In a few sentences, analyze each cartoon and what you think each one represents (the first one with respect to the division between corporate entrepreneurs and workers and the second one with respect to the future of the Populist Party). Consider the following questions in your analysis of both images: If the overarching question reflected in this week’s reading is, “how did Americans respond to the changing economy of the late 1800s,” then who is represented in the first cartoon? How are the plights of workers represented in the first cartoon? What is the fear around the Populist party and its role in national politics according to the second cartoon? Who do you think may be the audience for each cartoon?
cartoon 1 (puck politcal)- From Puck, a political satire publication from 1871-1918, circulation of at least 125,000 by 1884
Political cartoon #2:
cartoon 2: Populist political
The pro-Republican magazine Judge rendered this perspective in a political cartoon showing William Jennings Bryan (representing Populism writ large) as huge serpent swallowing a bucking mule (representing which political party?). Political Cartoon, Judge, 1896.
