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SECTION 1 QUIZ
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?
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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
Consistently used Congress
as guidance for his
decisions, he was seen as
bewildered and lost.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES – 19TH
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His election was the most
controversial up to that point in
American History.
After months of uncertainty, the
final electoral vote was 185-184
A hard working man, he
advocated temperance and
honesty
JAMES GARFIELD – 20TH
James Garfield worked
hard against political
corruption, and gained
back much of the
prestige that the
president lost during the
Reconstruction period.
 Was assassinated by a
bewildered 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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Under his administration the Pendleton
Act of 1883 was passed.
 Enacted to curb the Spoils system
 Also instituted a civil service exam
GROVER CLEVELAND – 22ND
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He served 2 terms, one before
and one after the Harrison
administration
A very solid supporter of LaissezFaire, he once vetoed a bill that
would have supplied aid to
drought ravaged Texas.
Turned to J.P. Morgan to bail the
federal government out of a gold
crisis.
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
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY – 25TH
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Last Gilded
Assassinated
VP - Roosevelt
Guess Who
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Cleveland
McKinley
Why were these
known as
“forgettable”
presidents?