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Steve Helm Connor Tyler

This is a political cartoon of Andrew Carnegie and how he gave his money to the development of libraries. He was a very wealthy man which can be seen based on the clothes he's wearing in this cartoon. And the building blocks symbolize how he gave money to help develop, or build libraries

This is "Boss Tweed" also know as William Marcy Tweed Jr. in this political cartoon he is standing without a face and instead he has a money bag for a face. In his life he has always wanted nothing but money. He was also convicted for stealing between 30 million and 200 million dollars.

In this political cartoon John D. Rockefeller is sitting on top of a barrel and has a globe in his hand. John D Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil company and made a large amount of money and was considered the richest man in the world. And because of he was also considered king of the word which is why he has a globe in his hand and a crown on his head. The barrel he is sitting on is surrounded by the people's money he received from being a monopoly and due to the numerous businesses he owned. This a political cartoon of the recently elected new president Obama. He has promised to fix our economy and its problem. In this cartoon he is trying to fill the hole that has been left by former president Bush. However, in doing so he is only hurting himself and the economy more. In this political cartoon Conrelius Venderbilt and James Fisk as they race for passengers. The owner of the Erie R.R. named Jay Gould caused Vanderblit a great deal of trouble, he lost 7$ million in his attempt to gain control of the Erie R.R. Also in this cartoon James is telling Cornelius that he must not stop even for water he will be beat in his race for passengers

Recently gas prices have become extremely high nearly costing 4$ a gallon. Then it dropped down to a lower 1$ a gallon. In this cartoon these people are expressing how happy they are due to the fact that gas is no longer extremely expensive and they are even thanking god for it due to the fact that they believed that the price would never go down and that it is a miracle from god.

This is a cartoon of the Sherman antitrust act. The Sherman antitrust act was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. Monopolies were business that were the only business of their kind in the area. This cartoon shows the big flaw in this statute being that if a store is the only store on the block it too can get trust busted. This is Thomas Nast, he is sitting down sharpening a pencil. He was very famous for drawing cartoons that made fun of and exposed Boss Tweed for the political sham he was. He is shown sharpening a pencil as if he is getting ready to draw another one of his famous cartoons to expsose Boss Tweed

In this cartoon there is a kid crying because he got a stock certificate instead of candy for Halloween. Because the economy is in a deep recession stocks are losing there values. The man is saying that he had purchased the stock certificate for less than a candy bar which is usually only worth 1$.