Cartoon Blog Post

How did analyzing these cartoons help you understand the relationship between big business and government better?
It took me awhile to actually understand the relationship at all. By the last one I did, I think I got it. Big business does it's best to have a lot power to control what they own. The government doesn't like that and do their best to stop it. Business bosses found ways to get around every law the government had set up. Their relationship was a 'rocky' one and they both did not get along with one another at all. For example. Each cartoon showed anger and both groups in it looking mad at one another.

Why would the position of the government be emphasized in these cartoons? 
The government is so strict and does it's best to keep everything under their control. They are being outsmarted by common business people and workers over and over again.

How do these cartoons help you answer the essential question, "How does a society distribute wealth?"
These cartoons helped me by showing how it is done. With all the trust formed, oil companies, the Big Business leaders, and everything else in the mesh; they work together in a way to help one another. Underneath the skin that's how it works. Government wants control, business people make trust to secretly work together against the government, but get disrupted when the government jumps in. Workers need the money and the bosses need the workers to make money for them.