Political Cartoon 2

Lady Liberty is saying that the U.S. is a 

• Melting pot for immigrants
• Immigrants automatically become citizens when they come to the U.S.
• Immigrants must accept American traditions when arriving to the US

What does the donkey symbolize in this cartoon?

• Republicans
• Democrats
• Congress
• President Trump

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• Jacob Riis

• Ethnic Clusters

From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.

• Large monopolies

• small private business

• political machines

• labor unions

What political cartoon element is displayed by the flags in this cartoon?

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Labeling
• Exaggeration

What is it called when you use symbols to represent ideas or qualities?

• Symbolism
• Exaggeration
• Irony
• Labeling

In this cartoon Rockefeller’s crown is labeled with the names of rail lines that he effectively controlled. By keeping transportation prices low, Standard Oil delivered less-expensive oil to market, pricing out much of the competition. Once the competition was gone in particular regions, Rockefeller could resume higher prices.

By eliminating the competition, Standard Oil created what?

• Perfect Competition

• a Oligopoly

• a Monopoly

• a Monarchy

What does this image say about the need for labor unions?

• labor unions were desirable because the workers were being crushed by difficult living conditions and poor pay.

• Labor unions decreased nativism

• Labor unions helped big business keep control of the workers

• Labor unions helped reduce the length of the work day

What political cartoon element is displayed by the speech bubble?

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Labeling
• Exaggeration

What political cartoon category would this fall under?

• Labeling

• Exaggeration

• Symbolism

• Irony