1. Do Now
Section 1 Quiz

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

3. HOT POTATO
How is this game like politics?

5. 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

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

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

8. Nast is also famous for…
HINT – Ho Ho Ho

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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)

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Grover Cleveland – 24th
Me Again

20. William McKinley – 25th
                                                       
Last Gilded
Assassinated
VP - Roosevelt

21. BINGO

22. Guess Who
Grant

23. Hayes

24. Garfield

25. Arthur

26. Cleveland

27. Harrison

28. Cleveland

29. McKinley

30. Why were these known as “forgettable” presidents?