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Gilded Age Politics
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The Gilded Age
• To be “Gilded” means to look like gold on the outside, while the inside is anything but gold.
• Politics during the late 1800’s were much the same.
• Robber Barons and politicians went from being poor to being wealthy through corrupt means
Mark Twain coined the term “Gilded Age”
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Political Machines
• This is an organized group, often members of a political party, who control politics in a city.
• Political Machines used election fraud and grafts to make their members rich.
• “Grafts” = illegal use of power to gain wealth at the expense of others
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Gaining Support from Voters
• Political Machines could only work if they had candidates elected into local offices such as the office of Mayor.
• To win elections, the machine would bribe voters by promising to give them money, jobs, hospitals, schools, parks, etc..
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Immigrants join Political Machines
• Many “Bosses, leaders of Political Machines, were immigrants. They used their power to help new immigrants find jobs and get naturalization papers.
• Immigrants gave their support to poilitical machines because they viewed the Bosses as men who understood their problems
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Fraud
• With support from the poor and fresh immigrants, Political Machines quickly dominated Local governments
• Machines used common people to rig elections by voting multiple times, using names of dead citizens to vote, intimidating others to vote a certain way, paying voters to support a candidate, etc.
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Grafting the Public
• Once elected, a Political Machine Candidate began a program to steal money from the citizens to make the Boss and machine members wealthy.
• Machines would over charge on taxes and city projects. The tax payers pay the high sums while the machine pocketed the majority of the money.
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The Tweed Ring
• William M. Tweed, “Boss Tweed,” ran the Democrat political machine in NY City.
• Their headquarters were in Tammany Hall.
• Boss Tweed used grafts to make millions at the expense of the tax payers
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“Boss” William M. Tweed
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Thomas Nast
• Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist. • He was angry at Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall
Machine. • Although newspaper articles had already
exposed Tweed’s corruption, immigrant voters still supported him.
• Nast realized that they supported him because they could not read, therefore they didn’t realize Tweed was robbing them.
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Thomas Nast
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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
• Nast began drawing cartoons that showed the illiterate immigrants what Tweed and his machine members had been doing.
• The Cartoons worked.
• Boss Tweed lost his support.
• The City turned against Tweed and his machine. Tweed was arrested and sentenced to jail
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The Tammany Tiger
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Who Stole the People’s Money?
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Time to Prey
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Tweed on the Run!
• Tweed however controlled the police and the prison system.
• Many guards were on his bribe pay roll
• Tweed escaped from jail and flees to Spain.
• However, police in Spain had seen Nast’s cartoons and identified Tweed. They arrested him and sent him to a new prison