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Boss Tweed was known for stealing about 20 to 300 million dollars worth through political corruption. The money bag for his head goes with the fact that he stole money.



Andrew Carnegie was one to give most of his money away. He gave it away to libraries, schools and universities. Its kind of ironic that he's saying down with the rich, when he was rich.

J.P. Morgan was known as an American banker. He dominated the corporate finance. This cartoon shows that since he was so rich, people could get money out of his clothes and skin.



This cartoon is saying that Thomas Nast always is getting made fun of. He is saying: "Why can't you just be funny?" because he is tired of the jokes that aren't funny about him.

John D. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry. He founded the Stand Oil Company. But in 1991, the Supreme Court of the United States found out that the Stand Oil Company was using illegal monopoly practices and ordered the Standard Oil Company to be broken up into 34 new companies.



This is talking about Darwins theory of evolution. In the first cartoon it is complaining because the teacher doesn't want to have to waste her time on teaching it. In the second cartoon it is completely toward Darwin's theory of evolution. The lady is basically a hypocrite because she doesn't like darwins theory when it comes to humans evolving from monkies, but when it comes to the economy, she is all for it.

This is talking about how this kid is all exciting about earth day and wants to hang a sign on the trees. Since we are cutting down so many trees for paper, wood, and other things, he can't hang the sign. Earth day is all about the earth, and because we are cutting down so many trees, we aren't helping the earth, we are distroying it. This cartoon is about Barack Obama's war stradegy. "end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan". Saying "Do you guys know "kumbaya" is basically teasing him because there are terrorists surrounding him and he is asking if they can sing with him.

This cartoon has to do with all the people who speak spanish. It's basically saying that since there are so many people in America who speak spanish now, that its gonna get so bad that the cars will also be affected.