Gilded Age Political Machines Cartoon Analysis: Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
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Teaching corruption in the Gilded Age? This activity includes 7 political cartoons depicting Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
Activity includes:
- 7 political cartoons to analyze
- Student handout with chart to analyze political cartoons
- Summarizing questions on student handout
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In this activity, students are instructed to pick 2 political cartoons to analyze and use the chart to deconstruct the images. Lastly, the students answer summarizing questions to express their knowledge of political machines and corruption.
Options:
- Students work in pairs
- Students volunteer to go over some of the cartoons as a whole class
- Teacher leads whole-class analysis
- Students complete all cartoons as a packet
This is a student-centered activity to help reinforce students' understanding of political machines, Tammany Hall, and Gilded Age corruption.
This PDF activity is also available on Easel by TpT!
My students LOVE this activity every year! You can make so many connections to political corruption over time.
Activity Covers:
- Thomas Nast's cartoons like "In Counting There is Strength," "Who Stole the People's Money," and "The Brains of Tammany Hall"
- How political machines like Tammany Hall gained favor and political power
- How Boss Tweed profited off of the public
- Corruption in Gilded Age politics
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