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William Tweed Case

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William Tweed was a volunteer fireman in New York City around the late 1840s, but he also served as the alderman in 1852-1853. Then he was elected to serve a term on the House of Representives which he seved from 1853-1588. Tweed got a small group of men too help controll New York City 's finances, which they dispensed jobs and contacts in return for the towns people political support and also their bribes. But most resources were drained which historians believe could between the amounts of $30 million and could have been as much as $200 million. Janurary 1st, 1869 Tweed 's man as they called his (John T. Hoffman) he was inaugrated as governor of New York, but in New York City Tweed was the supreme in this case he controlled the distrcit …show more content…

The Credit Mobilier scandal was placed between 1872-1873, which this damaged many careers of the Gilded Age politcians, but the major stockholers of the Union Pacific Railroad formed a compand which was named, the Credit Mobilier of America, which this gave out contracts to build the railroad tracks. The lucrative deal was for these congressmen because they helped approved the federal subsides for all the costs for the railroad construsction, which in this case they didn 't pay much attention to expenses, which was enabling railroad builders to make huge profits. But the New York Sun broke this story on the evening of the 1872 election. The speaker of the House James G. Blaine, was a Maine Republican he implicated in the scandal, and he set up a congressional committe to investigate this affair. The came to the conclusion that two of its members were involed in this scandal their names were, Oakes Ames (Massachuttes), and James Brooks (New York). This affair tarnished or ruined the careers of the outgoing vice president Schuyler Colfax, the incoming vice president Henry Wilson, and the Representive James A. Garfield. By this the scandal showed the corrution tainted by the Gilded Age plitics, and the liength of the railroads plus other economic interests which this went on too increase …show more content…

The author of the Daws Act was Congressmen Henry Daws, which he expressed the faith in the civilizing power of private property. This act was to provide the allotment of the lands in severalty to the Indians on the sereval various reservations, which extened the protection of the laws. This law was taken place on February 8th, 1887. This act was to enforces the rules which were as

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The Crédit Mobilier outrage of 1872-1873 harmed the vocations of a few Gilded Age legislators. Real investors in the Union Pacific Railroad shaped an organization, the Crédit Mobilier of America, and gave it contracts to fabricate the railroad. They sold or gave shares in this development to powerful congressmen. It was a lucrative arrangement for the congressmen, on the grounds that they helped themselves by affirming government sponsorships for the cost of railroad development without giving careful consideration to costs, empowering railroad manufacturers to make immense benefits. At the point when the New York Sun broke the story on the eve of the 1872 race, Speaker of the House James G. Blaine, a Maine Republican ensnared in the outrage,

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The government had the power over reservations of Nations, and could divide them up amongst individual Native Americans. The Dawes Allotment Act, affected Native sovereignty because the Native Government had no say in what their land would be used for. The text stated, "Indian

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In the late 1860s, most of New York’s finances were in Tweed’s hands. Tweed is a legend to this day for the corruption he did at New York City in years just after the Civil War. America was already hurting from all the money they had to use after the war but New York city was about to have a war of their own Tweed Ring running New York City. The members of the “Tweed Ring” were all hand chosen by Tweed himself, Tweed wanted to make sure whoever was part of the government was going to be on his side with whatever choices he made when corrupting the city. The Tweed Ring lasted a while before the public outrage turned against him and he was prosecuted more than

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Dawes Severalty Act De Juan Evans-Taylor Humboldt State University Abstract The Dawes Act of 1887, some of the time alluded to as the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 or the General Allotment Act, was marked into law on January 8, 1887, by US President Grover Cleveland. This was approved by the president to appropriate and redistribute tribal grounds in the American West. It expressly tried to crush the social union of Indian tribes and to along these lines dispose of the rest of the remnants of Indian culture and society. Just by repudiating their own customs, it was accepted, could the Indians at any point turn out to be genuinely "American."

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The Dawes act nullified previous land allotments forced upon the Native Americans by the federal government. This new act insured that the allotted land, that the Native Americans were forced to live on and rebuild their lives, will now be given to white settlers. I don’t think this act is fair or just. It’s other process that is trying to get rid of the Native American culture and lifestyle. They’re separating big parts of the region, and making them relocate to a smaller area.

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The candidates in the presidential campaign of the year 1868 included two men, Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour. During these times, there was only two political parties: the Democratic and Republican party. Ulysses S. Grant represented the republican party and Horatio Seymour represented the democrat party. The issues that occurred during the presidential campaign were….

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First of all, Native Americans were settled on a hotbed of natural resources which included oil and precious metals such as silver and gold. There was also much fertile land that would entice farmers and frontiersmen to move out west. On this land there was so much potential economic opportunity for farmers, cattle drivers, miners and many other occupations. The government developed the popular public misconception that the indians were misusing the land and that Americans had the right to take advantage of the opportunities that lie in the west. These ideas led to the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 which authorized encroachment of Indian lands by the US government in order to divide up reservations and control Indian activity.

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The Allotment Act The Dawes Act and its supporters sang a very similar tune to southerners who justified slavery as their patriarchal and christian duty. The Dawes Act allowed the President of the United States to survey the reservations Indians lived on and allot its land to heads of households, single persons over eighteen, and to orphans. This meant that the President went into reservations and redistributed the land, upsetting the system Native Americans had previously. Slave owners of the Antebellum South believed that the Black men and women needed to be enslaved, for they could not function without a patriarchal master. Westerners too saw the Native Americans as inferior, and felt that they had to help the tribal people be free of

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