Capitalism in the 1900s

A socialist poster describing the capitalist system by showing the rich benefiting from the poor.

Wilson signed the National Child Labor Law on September 1, 1916.

Article from the Jeffersonian Magazine where the populist author is addressing questions from a socialist.

Black and white illustration of a laborer kicking capitalism and taking over industry.

A political cartoon from the First Red Scare advocating restrictions on immigration.

1919 U.S. newspaper cartoon: The American Legion prepares to hit a ball labeled "Bolshevism" with a rifle butt labeled "100 percent Americanism." He stands above a quote from Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: "Don't argue with the reds; go to bat with them and…

Five Socialist Assemblymen expelled by New York State Legislature