"The Hurly-Burly Pot" Cartoon, 1850

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Courtesy of Library of Congress, Baillie, James S., "The Hurly-Burly Pot," 1850

Description 

This cartoon was created to attack abolitionist, Free Soil, and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union. The artist, James Baillie, singles out for indictment radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Pennsylvania Free Soil advocate David Wilmot, New York journalist Horace Greeley and Southern states' rights spokesman Senator John C. Calhoun. 

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Source-Dependent Questions

• Analyze the cartoon and determine who the artist blames for the conflict in the country. Justify your answer.
• What does the artist imply about the motives of the movement each man represents? Use evidence from the cartoon.
• This cartoon was created in 1850. Using other documents and your own knowledge of events after 1850, do you believe the artist was accurate in where he laid the blame for the Civil War?

Citation Information 

 Baillie, James S., "The Hurly-Burly Pot," 1850. Courtesy of Library of Congress