Question

The cartoon below was published in the United States in 1928:

A political cartoon shows Uncle Sam standing in front of a wall with a closed door. The word immigrants appears over the door. Behind, three faces peer over the wall. They are labeled, Rome, for Catholics, Rum, for alcoholics, and Red, for Communists. Uncle Sam says, Nothing doing. The cartoon is labeled, Not Wanted.
Public Domain
What was the purpose of this cartoon?
a. to point out a prominent form of hypocrisy in America
b. to criticize new laws restricting immigration
c. to support nativist anti-immigration sentiment
d. to generate public support for isolationist foreign policy

Answer 1

The answer is c.

Answer 2

Answer: c. to support nativist anti-immigration sentiment

Step-by-step explanation:

Following a wave of migration in the early 20th century, there developed an anti-immigrant sentiment in a lot of Americans who looked down on these immigrants and believed that they had come to engage in bad behavior that was against what they considered to be American values.

They did not want the Catholics to come in and as it was the Prohibition era, did not want people they considered alcoholics as well. They also detested the Communists and believed a lot of Easter Europeans were Communist.