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Political Bosses and Machines
• Helped the urban poor through:– Housing– Food baskets– Education– Medicine– Funerals
All they wanted in exchange:
VOTES!These friends took kickbacks (payment or money from a job)
Practiced graft (getting power or $ through illegal or dishonest means)
Muckrakers• Can we guess
what it means?– term attributed to Teddy R.– ...the Man with the Muck-rake, the
man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.
– People who publicize injustices:
• Political corruption• Child labor
Jacob Riis
• Jacob Riis writes How the Other Half Lives– Read quote from p.
262• T.R. calls him “the most useful
citizen of New York”• We’ll talk more later this week
Lincoln Steffens
• Writes The Shame of the Cities– Born into riches
(dad of a California businessman)
– Graduates from UC Berkeley, exposed to new political views
Thomas Nast
• Political cartoonist
• Inventor of Santa Claus as we know him today
• Invents Republican party symbol of elephant