Political Cartoons

Essential Question: What was the

relationship between
industrialized nations and their
colonies?

Cartoon Analysis
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Describe what is
happening in this
cartoon.
Name some of the
countries labeled on
this cartoon.
What country is
represented by the
octopus? Why?
Why would a country
want to take over
another?

Describe what is
happening in this
cartoon.
Where is the large
man standing?
What country do
you think the large
man is from?
Why?
Why would the
artist show a large
man towering over
an entire
continent?

Describe what is
happening in this
cartoon.
Does the man in
the background
look excited? Why
or why not?
What is the
significance of
the pizza?
In reality what
do you think
these people
were really
cutting up?

Describe what is
happening in this
cartoon.
What is something
all the men at the
table have in
common?
What is the
significance of the
cake?
In reality what do
you think these
people were really
cutting up?

Describe what is
happening in this
cartoon.
What is something all
the babies in this
picture have in
common?
If you lived in
America, would you
feel obligated to help
your colonies based on
this picture? Why or
why not?
If you lived on the
colonies, would this
picture offend you?
Why or why not?

1. Based on Kiplings
poem, how did he view
the native people?
2. What was the
White Mans
purpose?
3. What did he predict
would be the result of
the White Mans
efforts?
4. Why are poems such
as this offensive to
people?

An excerpt from White Mans Burden

~ Rudyard Kipling (1899)
Take up the White Man's burden-Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child...
Take up the White Man's burden-The savage wars of peace-Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to naught.

Political Cartoon
Create a political cartoon that answers
todays essential question.

What was the relationship between

industrialized nations and their colonies?

Your cartoon should show:

1.
2.
3.

The characters involved (who?)

The places involved (where?)
The relationship between two groups

Industrialized and colonized

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