Political Cartoons PowerPoint BY: Matthew Brennan and Emily Sadelski

He controlled all of the railroads that he desired in the United States of America. He didn’t care about the law because he was very wealthy. He disagreed with the law anyway. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT (CONT.)

After Cornelius Vanderbilt took over most of the railroads in the United States, he knew that he had control of the Congress and the Legislatures. The railroads also made him very wealthy.

Vertical integration gave him a great advantage over other steel producers. He gave away 95% of his money because he didn’t want to die with it. He believed that rich people should share their money. ANDREW CARNEGIE

Theodore Roosevelt had great faith in the nation’s growing industrial might. Roosevelt and others had a lot of efforts to limit the power of the trusts. He also took action to break up some trusts because he thought some of them would harm the country as a whole. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Child Labor

Child labor is putting children to work for long hours, little pay, and horrible working conditions. A lot of textile mill owners used women and children instead of men because the women and children worked for low pay.

Sweatshops

Sweatshops are workplaces where people labor long hours in poor conditions for little pay. Most workers in a sweatshop are women and children.