WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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George Plunkitt
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Roscoe Conkling
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Jacob Riis
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Thomas Nast
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Detailed explanation-1: -He portrayed public support for religious education as a threat to democratic government. The authoritarian papacy in Rome, ignorant Irish Americans, and corrupt politicians at Tammany Hall figured prominently in his work.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the culmination of his epic crusade against “Boss” Tweed and the Tammany Ring, Thomas Nast reduced his repeated caricatures of Tweed to their essence: he portrayed the driving force-the “Brains”-behind political corruption in New York as Tweed’s body with his face replaced by a money bag.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tammany Hall’s influence waned from 1930 to 1945 when it engaged in a losing battle with Franklin D. Roosevelt, the state’s governor (1929–1932) and later U.S. President (1933–1945). In 1932, Mayor Jimmy Walker was forced from office when his bribery was exposed. Roosevelt stripped Tammany of federal patronage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tweed was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852 and the New York County Board of Supervisors in 1858, the year that he became the head of the Tammany Hall political machine.