Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.
- He cheated the system in order to get democrats elected.
What caused all this corruption in government?
- The people would fraud the system by voting many times under fake names and pay people off.
What laws came about to reform government?
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?
Ch. 8.1:
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
- Better skyscrapers were made better because of the making of elevators, and the development of steel structures. Skyscrapers solved the issue of space.
- Advances in printing made it so that literature would be more available to people. Making it so much more of the population was literate and educated.
- The invention of the airplane
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