Urbanization Part 1
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.
What is a political machine?
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
The giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected.
What is patronage?
Offered a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through the merit system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Workers who tries to gain voter support in a neighborhood.
What is a precinct captain?
Illegal payments and most common form of graft.
Jobs in government administration.
What is civil service?
Raised the tariff to the highest level ever.
What is the McKinley Tariff Act?
Worked to secure the votes in all electoral districts.
What is a ward boss?
Getting others jobs or money for political favors.
What is the spoils system?
Republican Reformers who wanted civil service reform at all cost.
Who are mugwumps?
Wanted civil service reform.
Who are reformers?
Controlled all activities of a political party throughout a city.
What is a city boss?
One of America’s most powerful city bosses, head of New York’s Tammany Hall, and stole almost $200 million.
Who is William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed)?
Wanted civil service reform and keep loyalty to the Republican Party.
Who are half-breeds?
Opposed changes in the spoils system.
Who are stalwarts?
The factors that led to the growth of Political Machines.
What is rapid growth, inefficient government, and social darwinism?
New York City’s powerful Democratic Machine.
What is Tammany Hall?
The two groups who split the Republican Party.
Who are stalwarts and reformers?
The period of industrialization and immigration that produced the nations first millionaires.
What is the Guilded Age?