Thomas Nast Political Cartoon

Political cartoons could be defined as illustrations or cartoon strips that contain a social and/or political message in them. Political cartoons are often based on the current events around when they were written.

President Lincoln was trying to tie together the key principles of our founding fathers with freedom, equality, and democracy which are embodied

Benjamin Franklin created the first known American political cartoon, “Join or Die”. It was originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper owned and ran by Franklin. The cartoon is a snake divided into eight sections representing the original colonies, below that is a caption, “Join or Die.” Ben Franklin was trying to relay his standpoint on the uniting of the colonies;

Radical Republicans offered amendments for the Constitution to the House of Representatives. The cartoon depicts Columbia standing adjacent to the black Union soldier. She gestures towards him, with one hand gingerly placed upon his shoulder as if asking, “What about him?” My claims could be supported by the title of this piece, “Franchise. But not this man?” Columbia is depicted as the representation of the freed blacks, asking about their rights as citizens. In this depiction of Columbia by Nast in which he opted in drawing her with her sword, unlike the accompanying cartoon that comes with this cartoon. In the accompanying cartoon, “Pardon” by Nast, Columbia is depicted sitting with one arm crossed, next to the hilt of her sword, and her other hand is propped against her cheek and face, which holds a more than annoyed expression on her face. In “Pardon” Columbia faces a kneeling mass of ex-confederate men asking for pardon, that party is led by Robert E. Lee. Columbia’s sword is pointed towards the man as a symbol of distrust from the nation towards ex-confederate generals. From this depiction it can be inferred that the people believed they could not trust those that left the United States. By placing these two cartoons adjacent to each other one could infer that Nast and some portion of those viewing this newspaper thought that freed slaves should be able to vote and those in the ex-confederacy have their rights to vote revoked. Many Radical Republicans, including Thaddeus Stevens, encouraged Congress to protect not only the voting rights of blacks but also the protection of the black economics, political and social rights (Harrold

Thomas Nast was one of the famous artists in the 19th century. His work had a major impact where effected the political world. He was a journalist and illustrator. Thomas Nast was known as a “father of the American Cartoon” because of his work that critiques on the major events happened back then which is slavery and crime. He was famous in designing cartoon about civil war, Santa Claus, and Slavery pictures. In order to understand Thomas Nast impacts and his achievements, it is essential to know about Thomas Nast history by knowing his early life, influential political cartoonist, civil war prints, Santa Claus, Slavery, and final years of his work.

The Confederate flag is the last image in the section; it gets to have the last word. In contrast to the lively football game where the flag is proudly displayed, Faulkner’s dusty, silent grave (and by extension, much of the civil rights movement) seems forgotten and ignored. Though the civil rights movement was powerful and inspired change during its time, it did not generate fear on the same level as the Confederate, white supremacy movement did. For these reasons, Walton makes the decision to end a chapter on rebellion with the image of the Confederate flag, as the cause it symbolizes survived a

Political cartoons are an illustrative technique that political cartoonist use to display a message to the viewers about government, world affairs, and politics. In 1754, publishers of the Pennsylvania Gazette published the first political cartoon illustrated by Benjamin Franklin (West, par. 1). Benjamin Franklin used his first political cartoon, titled Join or Die, to gain support from the colonies for the Crown’s war against the French (West, par. 1). Since the 1700s, illustrators use political cartoons as a medium to display political messages to its viewers (West, par. 1). On March 10, 2015, publishers of the Columbia Daily Tribune published a political cartoon, illustrated by John Darkow, titled Hillary Has A Primary Opponent (Darkow,

The Civil War continues to be a major talking point today -- a war that was fought over the extension of slavery. In 2017, a contentious conversation continues as the public debates the reasons of the Civil War, whether or not it was about slavery or states’ rights, and the ethics behind having massive monuments commemorating a time of our history that was so divisive. Symbols of the Confederacy, which includes the Confederate flag and monuments depicting leaders of the Confederacy, are seen to be racist and propaganda tools used by white supremacists. However, there are those who believe that these confederate symbols are misleading and leads to the false ideas that the South was patriotic and heroic during the Civil War. Through

The political cartoons of the 1800s reflected the feelings of many laborers of the time. The American Revolution began in the early 1800s and continued through much of the 19th century. The low wages and high fees of being a laborer, added to the long hours many worked, made people desperate to find a better way of life. Despite their need for a better life, many laborers had little skill or ability to anything else. As the cartoon shows they are being crushed between their high rent that they are required to pay and the low wages being driven by the new monopolies and corporations of the time. Eventually riots broke out in the cities as the workers got more and more desperate to push for an increase in wages.

Germany, U.K., Russia and Japan already have their knives or hand on the pie, France has his eyes on it as well.

Woodrow Wilson, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony share a common purpose in their addresses advocating women’s suffrage.Wilson’s Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment expresses the opinion he holds about the lack of control over women being able to vote; he prioritizes the use of logos to create an argument consisting of present fact and his own belief of how the rest of the world will see them as a nation if they do not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Catt’s The Crisis analyzes her present issue of the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage. Catt explains that through the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage, women have been given more freedom, yet not the same equality as men. Catt wants more than just exceptions to social rules, she wants people to understand that a woman is not only an imperative cog in the societal machine, but equality should never be a crisis again. Susan B. Anthony wastes no time getting to the point in On Women’s Right to Vote; she instantly begins her speech with a strong denial of allegations thrown her way and moves right in to speak about the government basing a law off the sex of a person and how the government is not treated as a democracy. Through each of these addresses Wilson, Catt, and Anthony are divided by their point of view and united by their cause, yet only Carrie Chapman Catt’s address holds the most effective reasoning.

When Mark Twain first published The Gilded Age, there seemed to be no real discords between the Republicans and the Democrats. Both parties represented Corporate America—or a certain portion of it—although lines could be drawn between the Protestants and the Catholics, North and South, protectionists and people who believed in (or benefited from) free trade. As American politics gradually shifted from a game of the elites to ordinary people’s democracy, both parties took in more demographic groups under their wings. While it seems difficult to pinpoint when exactly the two parties evolve into what they represent today, it is generally agreed that Republicans are more conservative, Democrats are more liberal, whereas most people belong somewhere in between.

In Lincoln’s speech he recognized the losses that the union suffered and honored the dead with his most famous speech, it was about the purpose of the soldier’s sacrifice, equality, freedom, and national unity. The speech didn’t have much effect during his lifetime, in many ways it was forgotten and lost to popular memory until the U.S. centennial in 1876, when its significance was reconsidered in light of the war’s

This flag has been said to symbolize hate or racism. As stated by one of our great presidents, "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." (Lincoln) Robert E. Lee is the first commander to use this flag and as said by one author, “nearly 95% of Lee’s army that fought at Gettysburg did not own a single slave” (McPherson). This image of the South where everyone owns slaves is not correct. In fact, two authors say that, “The average white Southern family in antebellum America lived on a small farm without slaves. Slave ownership was the exception, not the rule” (Williamson and Cain). As presented by Williamson and Cain, “Over 80 percent of the free adult males in the South did not own slaves” (Measuring Slaves). Many 19th century Southern Americans are not. Most white people work on plantations with slaves for

Two political cartoons, “School Begins” by Puck and “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner” by G.F Keller, both published in the late nineteenth century, avail of distinct examples in order to reveal America's attempt to civilize immigrants and non-white groups as a means of granting them social acceptance throughout the nineteenth century. “School Begins” exhibits Uncle Sam, a popular U.S. cartoon figure throughout history, as the dominant white American male in the center. In the cartoon, the class is made up of well-disciplined students studying books labeled with their state’s name, juxtaposed with the disorderly class seated in the front made up of the “Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Cuba.” The territories are depicted as uncivilized, serving the racist and denigrating image that justified the right to govern the new territories gained after the Spanish-American War of 1898. In “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner”, immigrants and Americans of different backgrounds sit around a table, prepared for the feast . The groups represented at the dinner reveal unruly characteristics and stereotypical representations of each group’s food to highlight their conflicting differences in American society. By looking at how the artists utilize the exaggeration of non-white and immigrant groups, we can see the dominant civilizing narrative the U.S. secured through imperialism and assimilation, and this is salient because it exhibits a racist hierarchy that justified Western civilization