"So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent."
This is a passage from one of the most widely read American books in the 1880s, titled "Progress and Poverty." The author, Henry George, was highlighting the great puzzle of the era: Why did such great poverty exist at a time of such great progress and wealth? The question has been at the center of much of America's political life ever since.
Analyze the cartoons below:
1) What do you see?
2) What does that represent/mean?
3) How do they show life around the turn of the century?
After discussing those questions w/ all 4 cartoons, discuss the following (you will have to look up these)
4) When looking at the 1930's & 2010's, what continuities do you see in social structure? (give a specific example through description or even a political cartoon from the time)
5) When looking at the 1930's & 2010's, what changes do you see in social structure? (give a specific example through description or even a political cartoon from the time)
http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ftap/quotes6gilded.html accessed on 1/14/15
