Do Now Section 1 Quiz

LaFollette Muckraker Political machine Referendum Tweed Proggressive 17th Amendment Hull House/settlement Recall initiative

HOT POTATO How is this game like politics?

What is Nast accusing Boss Tweed’s organization of doing? What does Boss Tweed’s position next to the ballot container imply? The Ballot IN COUNTING THERE IS STRENGTH

Which one is Tweed? How does this cartoon illustrate a political machine at work?

Thomas Nast Political Cartoons helped the illiterate Also famous for other artwork

Nast is also famous for… HINT – Ho Ho Ho

How many successful assassinations have been made on presidents? Lincoln Garfield McKinley Kennedy

Who were they? 18 – 25… find a fact for each. Gilded Age Presidents This period was characterized by weak, forgettable presidents. Presidents ignored many of the problems created by the expansion of industry and the urban environment. The politicians believed in a “do-little” government, which relied heavily on laissez-faire and Social Darwinism. Who were they? 18 – 25… find a fact for each.

Ulysses S. Grant – 18th Famous Civil War General Used Congress as guidance for his decisions Seen as bewildered and lost

Rutherford B. Hayes – 19th His election was controversial -after months of uncertainty, the final electoral vote was 185-184 Hard working; advocated temperance and honesty

James Garfield – 20th Worked hard against political corruption Assassinated by a lawyer named Charles Guiteau in 1881 (Guiteau used an early form of the “insanity defense,” but it failed)

Chester Arthur – 21st Pendleton Act of 1883 to curb the Spoils system and start a civil service exam

Grover Cleveland – 22nd 2 terms in-consecutive terms Laissez-Faire (once vetoed a bill that would have supplied aid to drought ravaged Texas) Turned to J.P. Morgan to bail the federal government

Benjamin Harrison – 23rd First peacetime Billion dollar Congressional budget (high tariffs from Cleveland) The first to try to slow down the trusts with the Sherman Antitrust act

Grover Cleveland – 24th Me Again

William McKinley – 25th                                                         Last Gilded Assassinated VP - Roosevelt

BINGO

Guess Who Grant

Hayes

Garfield

Arthur

Cleveland

Harrison

Cleveland

McKinley

Why were these known as “forgettable” presidents?