1. Political Scandals of the Gilded Age Dee Ann Owens

2.  Era of the Great Barbecue  Credit Mobilier (1867 – 1872)  Black Friday (1869)  Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall (1858 – 1872)  Sanborn Contract (1874)  Whiskey Ring (1875)  William Belknap (1876)

3.  Patronage  Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano  Salary Grab Act (1873)

4.  Rep. Oakes Ames  Thomas Durant  Union Pacific Railroad  Construction Company  VP Schuyler Colfax  House Speaker James A. Garfield

5.  September 24, 1869  Jim Fisk  Jay Gould  Abel Corbin  The New York Gold Conspiracy

6. Jay Gould James Fisk Abel Corbin Daniel Butterfield Henry Adams

7.  Tammany Society founded in NY in 1789  Political Machine Serving as Public Welfare System  Naturalization Committees

8.  A Pyramid System to secure votes  Trade votes for “favors”  Political Boss – controlled government money  Graft – payout for favors-police on take  Cities improved infrastructure  Infamous – William “Boss” Tweed -headed NYC Democrats called Tammany Hall

9.  Elected to New York County Board of Supervisors 1858  Became "Grand Sachem” 1869  Tweed Ring  Orange Riot of 1871

10.  "Stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers say about me. My constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures!”

12.  "Gigantic Frauds of the Ring Exposed”  Tweed Arrested  Re-Elected to NY Senate in 1871  1873 convicted on 204 of 220 counts of embezzlement