1. Document 1
Source: 1867 print, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the purchase of Alaska by the United States. American War. Depicting Secretary of State William Seward tending to President Andrew Johnson’s wounded pride. The caption reads: “Old Mother Seward, ‘I’ll rub some of this on his sore spot. It may soother him a little.”

2. Document 2
Source: circa 1898 print, President McKinley waits on Uncle Sam who is examining the American territories acquired as a result of the Spanish American War.  

3. Document 3
Source: 1897, Puck Magazine, “Another Shotgun Wedding with Neither Party Willing." Senator John Tyler Morgan holding the shotgun of "bluster," President William McKinley officiating the wedding.  

4. Document 4
Source: William Allen Rogers's 1904 cartoon recreates an episode in Gulliver's Travels  

5. Document 5
Source: circa 1898 print, Uncle Sam holding the key to the Open Door Policy. Facing caricatures of the European competitors to trade with China.  

6. Document 6
Source: 1898 print, Uncle Sam looking over caricatures of the American territories acquired as a result of the Spanish American War.  

7. Document 7
1899, Philadelphia Inquirer, Uncle Sam balances his new possessions, which are depicted as savage children. The figures are identified as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines, and "Ladrones" (the Mariana Islands). Figures representing other nations look on. John Bull says via the caption "It's really most extraordinary what training will do. Why, only the other day I thought that man unable to support himself."