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.
head of Tammany Hall, made about 75-200 millon dollars in fraud, called kickbacks, would hire a contractor to build something and charge the city a lot more, bribed businesses, 120 counts of fraud and extortion, tweed escaped to spain but was caught and sent back from identification in a thomas nast cartoon
What caused all this corruption in government?
patronage "the spoil system"- whoever helped the president get elected would get a job, a lot of the people elected would steal money
What laws came about to reform government?
most people wanted merit system, they were known as reformers and wanted to get rid of patronage, Pendleton Civil Service Act- made it a maerit based system, illegal to fire people for political or religious reasons, had to find other ways to gain support since they couldnt bribe them with jobs anymore, had to prove worth with tests for most govt jobs
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?
clevland was the only president to serve 2 non consecutive terms, hayes supported reform in 1876, fired 2 of the top officials of NYCs custom hous, garfield was for patronage, mentally unstable layor shot garfield and chester arthur became president, was a status quo guy but switched to reform once he came into office, grant- status quo turned back on change, hayes- reform, garfield- reform, arthur- was status quo changed to reform,
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