Tammany Hall

Carnegie throwing large amounts of jobs to the general public and giving back large amounts of money for charitable causes. Turning steel and oil to prime exports of America. Having companies like Credit Mobilier and corrupt political machines like Tammany Hall take advantage of federal funds committing fraud. The vast amounts of Immigrants coming into America and becoming part of our culture. In turn this period of change was extremely important to the development of American society, without…

known as weak. In the story of “Daddy’s Girl,” it begins with Minnie arriving to face the facts that her father was not born a man. Minnihasve lost both her parents at the age of twenty-two not knowing who she truly is. Daddy, also known as Mr. Murray Hall, ran an employment agency and he was “a pillar of the Democratic party” in New York City. Daddy was granted to work within the political field and his friends treated him well. Like Minnie, Daddy only portrayed himself as a male which made…

those silly and unserious people want to wrest control of the Democratic Party away from its current leadership, which is exemplified by people like Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders’ critique of Clinton is not that she’s cartoonishly corrupt in the Tammany Hall style, capable of being fully bought with a couple well-compensated speeches, but that she’s a creature of a fundamentally corrupt system, who comfortably operates within that system and accepts it as legitimate. Clinton has had trouble…

“‘He held out a second girl in the same way and then let her drop,’ Shepherd wrote. ‘Then he held out a third girl. They didn’t resist.’ The fourth one was apparently his sweetheart. Amazed, the bystanders saw them embrace and kiss. ‘Then he held her out into space and dropped her. But, quick as a flash, he was on the windowsill himself. His coat flattened upward; the air filled his trouser legs; I could see that he wore tan shoes and hose. His hat remained on his head” (Von Drehle 158). The…

Corruption was rampant in the late 1800’s. William Boss Tweed was one of if not the most corrupt man in US history. Tweed ran Tammany Hall which was a democratic political machine which was organized to win elections through a network of precinct captains and would gain support and power by taking care of the poor specifically the immigrants by giving them jobs and loans and by bribing the politician’s as well. Tweed would overcharge for city services and take bribes from companies looking to do…

He agreed to run for governor against a popular Democrat, Judge Augustus van Wyck, the candidate of Tammany Hall. Roosevelt carried the election by just a few thousand votes; his victory stemmed largely from the work of the state's Republican Party boss, Thomas C. Platt, who threw the full support of his political machine behind the hero of San Juan Hill…

Tammany Hall appointed Copeland he had no believe in modern medicine. This public health department was the best. It developed a procedure that was simple and could be done within 30 minutes this meant immediate use of the serum treatment. On September 15…

During the American History years of 1865 through the 1900’s, there were many developments contributing to the growth of cities. Many of these came from advancements in technology. Another important part is the urban politics that greatly influenced much of the growth of the cities. One of the great and gateway technologies founded during this time was steel. Steel contributed a lot to the look of cities. Steel allowed cities to not only expand left and right, but up and down as well.…

Individual: 1868- 1877 Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president from 1865 to 1869. Johnson was the first president who had been impeached by the U.S House of Representatives. He was impeached because he didn’t respect the Tenure of Office Act. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. She was also the other founder of the National Women Suffrage Association in 1869. The ways she fought for Women’s Rights were by making petitions that people signed, saying speeches,…

The fiend fire could not be stopped. The doors that would free the six-hundred workers were locked shut, imprisoning the young girls in a man-made flaming hell. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Running from the incinerator, many stuffed themselves into the two freight elevators, operated by Gaspar Mortillaro and Joseph Zito who both returned to the inferno over and over, saving a hundred and fifty people. Still,…