APUSH “Must Know” political cartoons
Image or Cartoon title - Thank you!
Period 1: 1491 – 1607
Period 2: 1607 – 1754
The Emblem of America (for understanding who Columbia is)
Period 3: 1754 – 1800.
The Federal Pillars cartoons - Feds vs Anti-feds
Magna Britannia Her Colonies Reduced
Am I not a… (Originally a pin worn by abolitionists starting with Quakers, but then turned into this image and printed in Anti-Slavery newspapers - also female version)
Period 4: 1800 – 1848.
- King Andrew the First
- Jackson slaying the many-headed hydra
- Tippecanoe & Tyler too with a log cabin
- O Grab Me
- The Drunkard's Progress
- Garrison Fugitive Slave Cartoon?
- Slavery as a positive good cartoon (from Josiah Priest “Bible Defence of Slavery”, 1852)
- Nativism cartoon - the one with the scales I don’t know the title
Period 5: 1844 – 1877.
Forcing Slavery down the throat of a free-soiler
The Union as it was (aka Worse Than Slavery)
This is a White Man's Government
American Progress - (again, Columbia)
Tragic Prelude (from 1940, but about 1858)
Freedmen's bureau - An agency to keep the negro in idleness at the expense of the white man
Period 6: 1865 – 1898.
Shall I trust these men and not this man -Thomas Nast (with Columbia - preUncle Sam)
Nativism cartoon - Chinese exclusion act
Period 7: 1890 – 1945.
TR “A Nauseating Job But it Must Be Done”
Declined with Thanks
Standard Oil Octopus
FDR as the doctor and Uncle Sam as sick patient with all the bottles labeled as New Deal programs
Step By Step: FDR becoming a possible dictator
The End of the Nap by Dr Seuss
Ho hum, when he’s finished pecking down that last tree he’ll most likely be tired by Dr. Seuss
Must Liberty’s Light Go out (Espionage bill)
Period 8: 1945 – 1980.
Kennedy and Khrushchev Arm Wrestling
This is my favorite:
It’s Okay We’re Hunting Communists-Herblock
Nixon hanging between the tapes - Herblock (“I am not a crook”)
Period 9: 1980 - Present