Posted by 3Taylor on September 22, 2011 at 12:14pm
Today is a work day.Will be working on the prezi for the presentation.Define the Gilded age: the excesses of the late 19th century in Mark Twains satirical novel called The Gilded Age-- What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?- The political machine was an orginized group that controlled the activities of a political party and also offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or finantial support- After the Civil war they gained control of local government in Baltimore, New York, San Fransisco, and other major cities- it was orginized like a pyramid- at the base were local workers and captains who tried to gain voters support on a city block or neighborhood- durring election time the Ward Boss worked to secure the vote in the ward- Ward Bosses helped the poor and gained their votes by doing favors or providing services- at the top was the City Boss who controlled the activities for the political party throughout the city- political boss was the head of the political machine- - Tell me about Boss Tweed and Tweed Ring.- William M. Tweed or "Boss Tweed" became the head of Tammany Hall, New Yorks powerful Democratic political machine in 1868- Between 1869 and 1871 Boss Tweed led the Tweed Ring, a group of corrupt politictians- when the construction of the New York County Courthouse cost the taxpayers 13million, while the actual construction cost was 3 million. The difference went to Tweed and his followers- Thomas Nast helped arouse public ourtage against Tammany Hall's graft and the Tweed Ring was finally broken- Tweed was accused of 120 counts of fraud and extortion and as sentenced to 12 years in jail later reduced to 1 year- after leaving jail he was quickly arrested because of another charge- Tweed escaped durring his second sentence-- What caused all this corruption in government?- The desire for power and money made local politics corrupt in the industrial age and also infected natinal politics-- Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Ben Harrison, and Grover Cleavland and William Mckinley were all presidents durring the late 1800s. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?- Rutherford B. Hayes: reform- couldnt convince congress to support reform so he used other means- when Hayes decided not to run for reelection a free-for-all broke out at the republican convention between Stalwarts and reformers- neither side won so to decide the convention settled on predidential canidate James Garfield- James Garfield: status quo- to balance out Garfields ties to reformers the republicans nomintated for vice president Chester Arthur- Garfield angered the Stalwarts by giving reformers most of his patronage jobs once he was elected- Chester Arthur: reform- Chester Arthur turned reform when he became president after Garfield was shot twice by a Stalwart who wanted Arthur to be president- Grover Clevenand: status quo- tried to lower tariff rates but congress refused to support him- ran for reelection on a low-tariff platform against the former indiana senator Ben Harrison- elected again in 1892 and was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms- supported a bill for lowering the McKinley Tariff but refused to sign it because it also provided for a federal income tax- Benjamin Harrison:- the grandson of president William Henery Harrison- his campign was financed by large contributions from companies that wanted tariffs even higher then they were- Cleveland won about 100,000 more popular votes than Harrison , Harrison took a majority of the electoral votes and presidency- once in office he won passage of the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890which raised tariffs to their highest level- Graft : the illegal use of political influence for personal gain- Pendleton Civil Service Act: athourized a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs throught a merit system based on canidates performance on an examination
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