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Dylan "Bromely" Przelomski Justin "OscarChubs" Hofstetter This cartoon depicts Cornelius Vanderbilt riding on the Hudson River R.R. and the N.Y. Centeral R.R. He is racing the Erie R.R. to get more passengers. They are saying not to even stop for water or they will loose.

J.P. Morgan was a big business tycoon who was making large gains with his investments. He merged several large companies to make companies such as United States Steel Corporation and General Electric. His total domination of companies is represented in this cartoon. He is shown stealing the globe from atlas and that shows how much he dominated companies.

John D. was a major oil tycoon. He started one of the most prominent oil monopolies (Standard Oil) in history. People could buy oil only from him so the company was broken up in 1907. He began to raise oil prices and collecting more money from everybody. That is depicted in the cartoon above because John D. Rockefeller is sitting on a barrel of money collected from the public.

This cartoon depicts the infamous Tammany Hall political system of New York City. Of the most infamous was William Tweed (also known as Boss Tweed). He ran several major scandals in which he profited from taxpayer's dollars. In the cartoon everyone is blaming other people and they are in turn blaming themselves; this is how Tammany Hall worked. Andrew Carnegie was a scottish-american business tycoon. He created and ran U.S. steel and was a major investor in education and libraries. He is seen freely giving money to upside-down graduation caps which is basically what he did. Thomas Nast was a major player in the takedown of Boss Tweed and his corrupt Tammany Hall group. Thomas was offered bribe money to stop the cartoons of Boss Tweed but he did not accept and continued his drawings. Later Boss Tweed was arrested in spain mostly thanks to Thomas Nast. This cartoon depicts the Ralph Nader Campaign and is quite realistic to the modern situation. Ralph Nader ran as an independent and about 5% of the population is registered independent. As you need 51% of the population to vote for you, Ralph Nader may never be elected. This also says if he does win, it will be a crash course leading straight to disaster.

This cartoon is showing a plane about to crash into a building. One can then infer that a hijacker has taken control of the plane. The caption says that congress no longer allowed the National Safety Association to wiretap the phones and listen in conversations. If they had been listening in, they probably would've caught on to the hijacker's plan and apprehended him before the incident. This cartoon depicts President Obama's war strategy in Iraq: get out of there and head for Iran. There are soldiers complaining about his new stragety because this means plenty more fighting for them and many more days away from home. As depicted here, it is very easy for Obama to transit his soldiers from Iraq and right across the border into Iran.