"Bagging the Game" (1848)
Answer the following questions based upon your knowledge of the 1848 election and the cartoon above.
1. Identify each of the people in the cartoon (utilizing the name labels at the bottom of the picture) and explain each is related to the election of 1848.
2. What does each of the birds represents?
3. Taylor is holding a specific bird in his hand and commenting upon it. Given what you learned from the close reading of the Lincoln letter to William Herndon (listen here if needed), why is Taylor addressing these particular remarks to the bird?
4. What opinion do you think the artist has about the election of 1848?
5. Given what you know about the election of 1848, when do you think this cartoon was published? Why?
2. What does each of the birds represents?
3. Taylor is holding a specific bird in his hand and commenting upon it. Given what you learned from the close reading of the Lincoln letter to William Herndon (listen here if needed), why is Taylor addressing these particular remarks to the bird?
4. What opinion do you think the artist has about the election of 1848?
5. Given what you know about the election of 1848, when do you think this cartoon was published? Why?