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Zack Myers, Jon Myers, and Tim Keller

This picture is showing J.P. Morgan as a famous banker who dominated corporate finances. He passed mergers to help companies get better. He is also known for saving or rescuing the U.S. economy and the the goverment. In this political cartoon it is showing him creating mergers to help the railroads. The railroads already had enough power and abused that power.

In this cartoon the lady is complaining that schools are teaching kids about natural selection. She feels that natural selection is a lie. In the next slide she is saying that she does not care about families who are struggling. She says that survival of the fittest should be the way of life. Survival of the fittest is the same as natural selection.



This cartoon illustrates that large businesses could sometimes have more power over government. Rockefeller became the first billionaire and his business could have had more power than the government. In the picture is shows Rockefeller using the Captital building as an oil refinery showing his great wealth and power.



Boss Tweed was a corrupt politician from New York. He often charged high taxes and the people were unhappy with him. In this political cartoon they are asking who stole the peoples money. All the politicians are pointing at Boss Tweed.



Andrew Carnegie was the owner of an industrial steel company. He was very wealthy but had a reputation to have some bad habits. In order to clear his bad reputation he donated millions of dollars toward the construction of libraries. This political cartoon shows Carnegie as a little kid playing with blocks. He is building a library.

The large lady represents the size and power of the oil industry. Oil was in great demand to power automobiles and machines. Many oil companies became so large that they could overpower many smaller businesses. The small men being crushed represents the smaller businesses being overpowered by the oil industry.



People are getting very frustrated over gas prices. They are very inconsistent and fluctuate frequently. People have been losing more money than ever before on gas. In this cartoon the man is complaining about how much money he lost just by filling up his gas tank. The man just so happens to be Bill Gates and filling a gas tank should be no problem for him.



This picture shows Obama trying to dig the economy out of a hole. Currently the economy is doing poorly and we are trying to avoid a depression. Obama thinks he is digging the economy out of a hole but what he does not realize is that he is making the hole bigger. By trying to help the economy he is making it worse.



Politics now in days are taking things way to seriously. They are affraid of offending religions and are making up names that are "politically correct" for holidays. This cartoon shows a man complaining about the sign saying "Happy Holidays." He wants to call holidays by what they truely are. The worker then changes the sign to what he believes the holiday is all about still not mentioning the name of the holiday.