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14 Cards in this Set
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Who runs the City, Controls the Political Party, The Police Dep., Fire Dep., Constriction Companies, and Sanitation Dep?
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City Bosses NOT Mayors |
The Boath |
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Who is the Political Machine? |
Corrupt Politicians (Mostly Democrats) |
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The Political Machine & City Boss offered their services to immigrant Citizens
Need House? igotu fam
Ned to become a citizen? Igotu
Need Job? igotu
Sick and you need a Doctor? igotu
In exchange, what do they want in return? |
Their Vote |
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Since the City Bosses spoke the immigrant's language
What did the Immigrants showed the City Boss?
What were the City Bosses originally? |
Respect and Trust
CBs were originally Immigrants |
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How were the City Bosses Corrupted?
What are Grafts? |
By stealing illegal money
(Same w/ Grafts) |
Illegal |
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Political Machines would ask companies to give building contracts to "Bill the the City double the price for building and labor"
What does that mean? |
It would cost 2x the money to make.
And the Xtra money would be given to the Political Machine. |
2x money |
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What are kickbacks? |
Individual money from immigrant worker.
(Worker makes 200$$ he pays 25$ to the political machine.) |
Lion eats 90% of its Kill ⬇ Vultures take the other 10% |
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The Political machine took bribes. (Mostly From the Mod at the time)
So that they can gamble (which was illegal) |
PM bribes the the Cops |
Bois n Blue |
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The most famous and powerful City Boss was William Boss Tweed
What was the name of his group of political Machines? |
Tammany Hall |
Tam... |
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Who was the Tweed Ring? |
The group of Corrupt politicians led by William Tweed. |
Same as Tammany Hall... |
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To show other people that tweed had alot of money, what was the name of the building built for that reason?
What is the one picture that represents William Tweed?
In 1891 The Federal government stopped the Tweed Ring and William Tweed was sentenced to Jail for Life. |
Tamany Hall
A Fat guy with a Money bag for a head. |
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Define Patronage? |
A political party working hard to have a person as President and in exchange , the president gets them a job that is easy to do and will get payed alot of money. |
Work hard for (canidate) for pres. ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇ becomes Pres. EZ money & EZ Job |
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Political reformers ended the Patronage System and replaced it with the Merit system
What did this system do? |
You first have to take a Nationwide Test and you would either have the job or not have the job if you did well on the Test.
This did not matter what Political party you're in. |
Nation wide Test
Good score -
Bad score- |
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1883
The Pendleton Civil Service Act did what? |
-Created the Pendleton Civil Service Commission
Gave Goverment Jobs based on Merit NOT Politics. |
Pen Civ Ser Com
No based on.... |
