Gallery Walks

Viewpoints in this packet

• Join, or Die: Franklin was a Pennsylvania delegate pushing a plan for colonial union.
• The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp: Made for a British audience; many London merchants favored repeal because the act hurt trade with the colonies.
• The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught: Published in London, where opinion on the colonial crisis was divided.
• The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering: A British print; some read it as criticizing the crowd, others as reporting colonial anger.
• Property Protected à la Françoise: British-made at a time when Britain and France were at war.
• King Andrew the First: Made by Jackson's opponents (who soon formed the Whig Party); supporters saw his vetoes as defending ordinary people.

Viewpoints in this packet

• The Emancipation of the Negroes, January 1863: The Past and the Future: Nast and Harper's Weekly strongly supported the Union and the Republican Party.
• Writing the Emancipation Proclamation: Volck was a Baltimore dentist who sympathized with the Confederacy; he printed his etchings secretly.
• Compromise with the South: Nast supported Lincoln's reelection. Democrats argued that a negotiated peace would save lives.
• Abraham's Dream! "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before": Supports McClellan and the Democrats; Lincoln won the election that November.
• The Union as It Was: The Lost Cause, Worse Than Slavery: Nast and Harper's Weekly supported federal enforcement of Reconstruction.

Viewpoints in this packet

• "Stop Thief!": Harper's Weekly was a Republican paper; Tweed led the Democratic Tammany Hall machine.
• The Bosses of the Senate: Puck generally leaned toward the Democratic Party and criticized high tariffs and trusts.
• The Protectors of Our Industries: Puck opposed high tariffs. Republican magazines such as Judge argued tariffs helped workers.
• The Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads: Puck often criticized railroad owners; defenders pointed to the growth and lower travel costs railroads brought.
• Next!: Critical of Standard Oil; the company argued its size made oil cheaper and more reliable.

Viewpoints in this packet

• The Chinese Question: Nast opposed anti-Chinese laws; supporters of restriction argued Chinese labor lowered wages.
• Welcome to All!: Keppler, himself an immigrant from Austria, generally favored open immigration.
• The Anti-Chinese Wall: Puck opposed Chinese exclusion; supporters of the law argued it protected American workers.
• The Only One Barred Out: Critical of the exclusion law.
• Looking Backward: Critical of immigration restriction; supporters of limits argued new arrivals strained cities and wages.
• In the Art Pen at Ellis Island: Critical of the art tariff.

Viewpoints in this packet

• Well, I Hardly Know Which to Take First!: Lighthearted; readers then and now differ on whether it approves of expansion.
• Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip: Celebrates expansion.
• Uncle Sam's Barber Shop: Artist unidentified; viewpoint is open for students to judge.
• School Begins: Scholars disagree whether Puck meant this to support or mock expansion; let students argue it.
• "The White Man's Burden" (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling): Judge was a Republican magazine that supported expansion; anti-imperialists strongly rejected this view.
• The Dream of the Anti-Expansionist: Mocks the anti-expansionist position.

Viewpoints in this packet

• Election Day!: Argues against women's suffrage by imagining what would happen at home.
• The Awakening: Supports women's suffrage.
• If You Are Good Enough for War You Are Good Enough to Vote: Supports women's suffrage. The round stamp is from a German archive that collected the clipping.
• Forming the League of Nations: Gropper was a radical (left-wing) cartoonist who distrusted governments and business leaders.
• The Gap in the Bridge: A British view, critical of the U.S. staying out.
• Refusing to Give the Lady a Seat: Kirby's paper supported the treaty; Lodge and others argued the League would limit U.S. independence.