Review: Extending the skill

How to interpret a political cartoon?

1. What is the cartoon about?

2. Who is speaking in the cartoon?

3. What is the point the cartoon is trying to make?

4. Is the cartoonist finding fault with or paising something?

Practice with these cartoons


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Benjamin Franklin published this in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1754


The Intolerable Acts followed the Boston Tea Party. This is a political cartoon published in the London Magazine titled "The Able Doctor; or America Swallowing the Bitter Drought".
The man with the tea pot is Lord North. America has a human form and is being held down.
What do you think this political cartoon is depicting?


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This cartoon was taken from this website:
http://www.eonimages.com/media/67389dae-3e49-11e0-b7a4-d71fddb7733a-cartoon-the-able-doctor-or-america-swallowing-the-bitter-draugh