Today Mr. Bruns went over 7-2 because he has a lot of cool pictures, and then he did the presentation on 7-3.Chapter 7 Section 3Politics in the Guilded AgeCh. 7.3What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?The political machine ran the day to day activities of the political parties within a city. There were the democratic political machines that ran the day to day democratic parties, and the republican political machines.Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.Boss William Marcy Tweed was the political boss who hired and fired police. He was also the head of the democratic political machine, the democrats had much control over New York. He had more power than the mayor. Immigrants loved him because once they came across Ellis Island he would have his people meet up with them and give them money and houses and such as long as in return they would provide their loyalty. Spoils System-when people in political parties would give certain jobs to certain people if they gave them money. When you give people jobs that voted for you even if you don't really know them, just give them jobs if they give you votes.Boss Tweed was in controll of the election, meaning he counted the votes. "In counting there is strength," so basically whoever Tweed wanted to win the election, they would win the election, all because he was in complete controll. Tweed was a vulture that picked at the bones of New York and the Law and the Treasure according to a cartoon. The Tweed Ring was all of the people who worked for Boss Tweed, people never really complained about how things were going, they didn't really know any better. The Tweed people looked like they were doing a lot of good and beautiful things while in reality they were stealing from them. They were devious people that supposedly only cared about money.What caused all this corruption in government?There was a lot of coruption at this time, although things looked good, corruption was bad.Dishonest people. lack of government laws, lack of leadership, the spoils system and patronage,What laws came about to reform government?The Spoils system caused a lot of problems at this time.The Pendleton Civil Service Act- this act required people to take a test to prove that they were worthy of a person having a position in the government. There was still a little act from the Spoils System at this time.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?Reform President- trying to help the common person. Presidents like this often only served one term, because people like this were not liked by the rich Rich people thought this was messing up the system of them making millions and the common people making absolutely nothing. .Status Quo President- wanted the rich to control everything and not care about the poor common peoplestatus quo known as stalwartsreformers known as half-breedsUlysses S. Grant, status quoRutherford B. Hayes, reformerJames Garfield, reformerChester Arthur, was a status quo, but switched to a reformer because of the death of James GarfieldGrover Cleveland, only president to serve two not-consistent terms, reformerBenjamin Harrison, status quoGrover Cleveland, reformerWilliam Mckinley, status quo guy
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