1. DBQ Sources: The Political Cartoon
Four Steps to Analyzing
a Political Cartoon
Mr. Rogers Hays
Advanced Placement American History

2. 1. SOURCE
(WHAT?):
Grant E. Hamilton’s
September 1896
“The Sacrilegious
Candidate”

3. 2. CHARACTER
(WHO?):
William Jennings
Bryan, 1860 – 1925

4. 3. HISTORICAL
CONTEXT
(WHEN?):
1896 Democratic
National Convention

5. 4.THEMES
(WHY?) :
Populist Fiscal Policy
…“We shall answer their demands for
a gold standard by saying to them,
you shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns.
You shall not crucify mankind upon a
cross of gold.” – William J. Bryan