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How Did Boss Tweed Show Political Corruption

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The abuse of power wasn’t just present amongst corporate businesses but also amongst politicians. This type of corruption led to one of the most well-known political corruption known for its infamy of machine politics was Tammany Hall. The Tammy Societies in the United States exercised a powerful influence in shaping the destinies and crystalizing the principles of our government, and having contributed to the development to our present government Tammany Hall was created as a means to oppose the Federalist Party and was headquarters of the Democratic Party in New York City headed by William Marcy Tweed also known as “Boss Tweed”.
One of the most well-known political cartoonist of the time was named Thomas Nast, who drew about the political corruption of Tammany Hall at the time. One political cartoon he drew was called “Stone Walls Do Not Make a Prison Old” – Old Song, published in 1872. This cartoonist depicted William M. Tweed inside a city jail with his head and feet sticking out of the building. The quote at the bottom of the page is “No prison is big enough to hold the Boss” showing the people throwing Boss Tweed into jail by his feet when they found out of the man’s corrupted ways to gain a large …show more content…

William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed) became affiliated and known for the Tammany Hall scandal on how he manipulated the people bribing them with money to gain their vote. Boss Tweed and the intention of Tammany Hall were to assist those who were poor and the immigrants who had come into the country for a better life, but it became known for the political corruption Boss Tweed caused at Tammany Hall in New York. Eventually the corruption of Tammany Hall was exposed by The New York Times due to information being leaked about the bribery and greed, using this evidence to convict William Marcy Tweed of political corruption and threw him into jail where he died of

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