Spanish-American War Political Cartoon Analysis

 

        This political cartoon is on the issue of the Spanish-American War. This is shown in the illustration where it says "War declared with Spain -- 1898". His message is that the U.S. is coming to gain Cuba for its own with great force and persistence. Its shown in the cartoon where Uncle Sam is bold and determined to get Cuba with a battleship army behind him. Another person might have the opinion that we should have let Cuba deal with Spain by themselves and we shouldn't have gotten involved. You can see this is the opposite of what the cartoonist thought because in the cartoon it shows Uncle Sam coming for Cuba without a look of turning back on his face. The cartoonist used two techniques; exaggeration and irony. You can see exaggeration in the size of Uncle Sam being ginormous and irony where you wouldn't expect the U.S. to be so quick to go to War and actually be overwhelmingly wanting to go to War. This cartoon supports my view on American Imperialism. It supports my view because it shows America being forceful and powerful and gaining more land.