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“We have the best government that money can buy.” Mark Twain

“We have the best government that money can buy.” Mark Twain. Political Scandals of the Gilded Age Dee Ann Owens. 1869 – 1876 . Era of the Great Barbecue Credit Mobilier (1867 – 1872) Black Friday (1869) Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall (1858 – 1872) Sanborn Contract (1874) Whiskey Ring (1875)

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“We have the best government that money can buy.” Mark Twain

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  1. “We have the best government that money can buy.”Mark Twain Political Scandals of the Gilded Age Dee Ann Owens

  2. 1869 – 1876 • 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. Era of the Great BBQ • Patronage • Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano • Salary Grab Act (1873)

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

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

  6. Black Friday 1869 Abel Corbin Jay Gould James Fisk Daniel Butterfield Henry Adams

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

  8. Political MachineLegal “Mafia” • 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. Boss Tweed • Elected to New York County Board of Supervisors 1858 • Became "Grand Sachem” 1869 • Tweed Ring • Orange Riot of 1871

  10. Boss Tweed & Thomas Nast • "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!”

  11. Thomas Nast Cartoons

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

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