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SECTION 1 QUIZ
LaFollette
Muckraker
Political machine
Referendum
Tweed
Proggressive
17th Amendment
Hull House/settlement
Recall
initiative
HOT POTATO
How is this
game like
politics?
What is Nast
accusing Boss
Tweed’s
organization of
doing?
 What does Boss
Tweed’s position
next to the ballot
container imply?

The
Ballot
IN
COUNTING
THERE IS
STRENGTH
Which one is Tweed?
 How does this cartoon illustrate a political
machine at work?
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THOMAS NAST
Political Cartoons helped the illiterate
 Also famous for other artwork
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NAST IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR…
HINT – Ho Ho Ho
HOW MANY SUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE ON PRESIDENTS?
Lincoln
Garfield
McKinley
Kennedy
GILDED AGE PRESIDENTS
This period was characterized by weak,
forgettable presidents.
 Presidents ignored many of the problems
created by the expansion of industry and the
urban environment.
 The politicians believed in a “do-little”
government, which relied heavily on laissezfaire and Social Darwinism.
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Who were they?
18 – 25… find a fact for each.
ULYSSES S. GRANT – 18TH
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Famous Civil War General
Used Congress as guidance
for his decisions
Seen as bewildered and lost
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES – 19TH
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His election was controversial after months of uncertainty, the
final electoral vote was 185-184
Hard working; advocated
temperance and honesty
JAMES GARFIELD – 20TH
Worked hard against
political corruption
 Assassinated by a lawyer
named Charles Guiteau
in 1881 (Guiteau used an
early form of the “insanity
defense,” but it failed)
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CHESTER ARTHUR – 21ST
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Pendleton Act of 1883 to curb the Spoils
system and start a civil service exam
GROVER CLEVELAND – 22ND
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2 terms in-consecutive terms
Laissez-Faire (once vetoed a bill
that would have supplied aid to
drought ravaged Texas)
Turned to J.P. Morgan to bail the
federal government
BENJAMIN HARRISON – 23RD
First peacetime Billion
dollar Congressional
budget (high tariffs from
Cleveland)
 The first to try to slow
down the trusts with the
Sherman Antitrust act

GROVER CLEVELAND – 24TH

Me Again
WILLIAM MCKINLEY – 25TH
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Last Gilded
Assassinated
VP - Roosevelt
BINGO
Guess Who
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Cleveland
McKinley
Why were these
known as
“forgettable”
presidents?