1. Good Morning! 1.NVC 2.Political Bosses Essential Question: Were America’s politics corrupt during the Gilded Age? Homework: TEST NEXT MONDAY!

2. Political Bosses Political bosses: political leaders who got people to vote for them by giving favors and making deals with businesses. Political Machine: the group of people who made deals and got votes for the political boss – Many in these groups are immigrants who receive help – Tammany Hall: NYC’s biggest political machine

3. On the next slide… What do you see here? Who is in the ring? What is the cartoonist saying? Does he like Tammany or not?

5. The Politics of Fraud? “As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?”—Boss Tweed

6. Do you see any of what Lincoln Steffens describes in America’s politics today?