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Political Cartoons
Cartoon 21
© CORBIS/Bettmann
Urban Life and Tenements
Each room in the cartoon
depicts a scene of daily
life in a tenement.
The cartoonist creates a
dark and grim mood by
drawing faceless people.
Note how people in tenements used the roofs and
the area between the
buildings.
ANALYZING POLITICAL CARTOONS
Study the political cartoon, and then answer the questions that follow.
1. What is the overall mood of the cartoon?
2. Based on this cartoon, what was life like in a tenement?
3. Why do you think the cartoonist shows clothes hanging on lines between the
buildings?
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U.S. History Political Cartoons Activities