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AP Ulysses S. Grant
Grant's administration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Credit Mobilier | a corporation to finance anc construct the Union Pacific. Formed by large stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad |
| What did the Credit Mobilier sell? | sold supplies and construction materials at exorbitant (high) prices to the Union Pacific |
| Congressman Oakes Ames | agent for Credit Mobilier who sold/gave profitable stock to key Senators and Rep. who would use their influence to see that Congress extended favors to the Union Pacific |
| What happened to the Credit Mobilier after the New York Sun reported about the scandal? | Investigation begin. |
| General John McDonald | supervisor of the IRS headed the conspiracy to defraud the gov. |
| McDonald's scheme | Revenue officials allowed distillers (people making liquor) to sell a portion of their output without paying the tax thereon. For ex: distiller was allowed to pay $5000 less in taxes than the law required if he would pay $3000 to the revenue officials. |
| Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow | sent agents secretly to St. Louis. Distillery records were seized, which exposed the scandal. |
| General O.E. Babcock | Grant's secretary who supervised the ring's activities. |
| "Boss" William M. Tweed | was the leader of Tammany Hall |
| Tammany Hall | Democratic Club of New York City |
| Thomas Nast | drew cartoons in the Harper's Weekly picturing Tammany Hall as a tiger. This imply that Tammany Hall was corrupted. The cartoons made the public resent Ring's activities. |
| The money that Tweed and his ring collected came from... | contracts for goods and services purchased by the city and from all tyeps of organized vice and illegal activities by which $ could be made. |
| Treaty of Washington in 1871 | England and the US agreed to settle disputes over fisheries, boundaries, and the Alabama by arbitration (process for resolving disputes ) |
| Secretary of State Hamilton Fish | able to reach an agreement with England to submit the issue to an internation tribunal for arbitration. |
| The trunal findings | England had violated international law in by permitting the construction of the commerce raiders in British shipyards. US was awarded with $15 million. |
| The issue that was brought to the tribunal | negotiations with England in an attempt to recover damages caused during the Civil War by commerce raiders Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah |
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