1. Do NOW (Insert Date)
“The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath.”--Mark Twain
What do you think this quote means?
What is Twain trying to say?
What are some industrial problems America has during the Industrial Revolution that we’ve talked about?
How do you think these issues will be dealt with?

2. Gilded Age:
Gilded Age -Period when corruption existed in society but was overshadowed by the wealth of the period
What do you think the word Gilded means?
-Is when something is golden/beautiful on the surface but is really cheap/worthless underneath

5. Overview of the Gilded Age:
Directions/Expectations:
Using your drake voice
Read/Analyze the overview article with your group
Complete your Term Chart about the Gilded Age
Answer the worksheet questions
Be prepared to discuss!

6. The Rise of Political Machines
Political Machines –an organized group of people that controlled the activities of a political party
By giving voters services they needed, the machine won their vote and controlled city government

8. Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast –political cartoonist who was critical of political machines and Boss Tweed

9. Background! Let’s read background together
Then we will go through directions for the rest of the worksheet!

10. Directions/Expectations:
Using your drake voice
Fill out your primary source observation worksheet
Analyze the political cartoon created by Thomas Nast
Be prepared to share your reflections!

11. Observe, Reflect, Question: Look at your worksheet, and analyze the political cartoon using these questions
Question:
What do you still wonder about? Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Observe:
Describe what you see, what do you notice first? What people and objects are shown? What is the setting? What, if any, words do you see?
Reflect:
Why do you think this image was made? What’s happening in the image? When do you think it was made? If someone made this today, what would be different? What would be the same? What inferences or educated guesses can you make about the document?

12. Primary Source Review:
1. Under the Tammany tiger’s victim is a torn paper
that reads “LAW.” What is its significance?
2. Boss Tweed and his cronies, portrayed as noblemen, watch from the stands on the left. The
cartoon’s caption reads “What are you going to do about it?” What effect do you think Nast wanted this cartoon to have?

13. Symbols in the Cartoon!
The figure of Columbia is being crushed under the Tammany Tiger (which represents Boss Tweeds’ political machine.) The law is broken beneath her.

14. Corruption in Government
Patronage or Spoils System- giving government jobs to loyal party workers or friends
-What do you think would be the downside to this?
Were not qualified
Used position to get money from government (graft)
Consequence: President James Garfield is assassinated
Chester Arthur becomes President because Garfield is dead
James Garfield 21st President
Charles Guiteau

15. Exit Ticket: •Political Machine •Graft •Boss Tweed
You have 10 minutes to quietly complete the following at your own desk.
Choose 3 terms from the list below and describe what or who it was, the historical significance, give EXAMPLES, use 2-3 COMPLETE SENTENCES
•Political Machine
•Graft
•Boss Tweed
•Patronage/Spoils System
•James A. Garfield
•Chester A. Arthur
•Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883