1. What are the CRITICISMS of Big Business in the late 19th Century
What are the CRITICISMS of Big Business in the late 19th Century? CARTOON ANALYSIS

2. “What a Funny Little Government”, by Horace Taylor for the September 25, 1899 issue of The Verdict
THE TRUST GIANTS POINT OF VIEW
“WHAT A FUNNY LITTLE GOVERNMENT”
White House, President
McKinley

3. Mark Hanna- iron and coal industrialist Philip Armour- meatpacking
LABOR
ONE SEES HIS FINISH UNLESS GOOD GOVERNMENT RETAKES THE SHIP
Mark Hanna- iron and coal
industrialist
Philip Armour- meatpacking
industrialist

4. “NEXT!”

5. Joseph Keppler - 1889 political cartoon "The Bosses of the Senate",

6. “The Protectors of our Industry” 1883
Russell Sage- financier and
Railroad executive
William Henry
Vanderbilt- railroads
Cyrus
Field-
American
Telegraph
Company
Jay Gould-
Railroad
Developer
And
speculator

7. Samuel Ehrhardt, ‘History Repeats Itself: The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of Today’, Puck, c. 1889

8. On bottom of your T-chart…..
Identify what you see as the most significant negative impact of the “rise of big business”
write down a possible solution to the problem….
Challenge: what might the arguments be against the(se) solution(s)