Municipal Graft and Scandal
Went by "Boss Tweed"
William M. Tweed
Giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected.
What is patronage?
Described the excesses of the late 19th century, in a satirical novel.
The gilded age
True or False: The alliance between government and big business became weaker.
False; Stronger
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.
What is political machine?
Political cartoonist who helped arouse public outrage against Tammany Hall's graft.
Thomas Nast
Republican president elected in 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Cities in the late 19th century
Experienced rapid growth under inefficient government
The Indiana Senator
Benjamin Harrison
The machine was organized like...
a pyramid
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
Ohio Congressman
James A. Garfield
The gilded age was a collaboration between Marks Twain and...
Charles Dudley Warner
The Democratic party won a presidential election for the first time in...
28 years.
Controlled access to municipal agencies.
political boss
Until 1890, they were hired and fired by political bosses.
Police forces
Nominated at vice president for Republican party; one of ConKling's supporters
Chester A. Arthur
A time period represented by the title of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's book.
1870's to the 1890's
The president in 1982 for a second time was...
Grover Cleaveland.
Many precinct captains and political bosses
1st generation or 2nd generation immigrants
Fell Victim to corruption as their influence grew.
Political bosses
Authorized a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through merit system; made in 1883.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Emerged under the influence of dog-eat-dog social Darwinism.
Cities were receptive to a new power structure, the political machine, and a new politician, the city boss.
Cleaveland supported a bill for lowering the tariff called...
Mckinely Tariff act of 1890.
An Irish-American saloonkeeper, worked his way up to Democratic city boss in Kansas city by aiding Italian, African-American, and Irish voters in his ward.
"Big Jim" Pendergast