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Tweed - SAW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a political machine in the late 1800s? | an organized group, headed by a city boss, that controlled activities of a political party in a city |
| What was the relationship between political machines and the people? | Political machines offered services and businesses to voters in exchange for political or financial support |
| What was graft? | the illegal use of political influence for personal gain |
| What are kickbacks? | an example of grafts, and are the receiving of funds from a contractor (works like "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours) |
| How did city bosses win elections? | filling the list of eligible voters with names of dogs, children, and the dead |
| Who was President Richard Nixon's first vice president? His second? | the governor of Maryland, Spiro T. Agnew was the first; Gerald Ford was the second |
| Why did Nixon resign? Who was the next president? The next vice president? | he resigned after the Watergate scandal; Gerald Ford became the next president and chose Nelson Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, as the vice president |
| Who was William Marcy Tweed? | aka boss tweed; one of the most powerful political bosses; the head of Tammany Hall, NYC's most powerful Democratic machine; swindled NYC out of a fortune in 1860s + 1870s |
| Who was Thomas Nast? | American cartoonist and German immigrant best known for his attack on William Marcy Tweed in the 1870s; his cartoons are one of chief factors in Tweed's downfall |
| What did Germans introduce to America? | Santa Claus, Nast made a famous drawing of Santa |
| What happened when Tweed tried to bribe Nast? | Nast said he would rather see Tweed go down instead of accepting the money; Tweed sent people after him, so Nast and his family moved to suburban Morristown, New Jersey |
| What happened after Tweed failed to bribe Nast? | Tweed tried to intimidate the Harper Brothers where Nast published his work to; threatened to throw out all of their textbooks but they decided to stand by their artist |
| What was Nast's biggest cartoon called? | The Tammany Tiger Loose - What are You Going to Do About It? |
| Which war was America's first televised war? | Vietnam War |
| How many of our president's served in the military? | 26 out of the 46 served; Biden, Clinton, Obama + Trump did not serve; Trump just went to military school |
| Who was President William McKinley? | former congressmen from Ohio; served as major in Civil War; made his fortune in the iron business; republican candidate |
| Who was William Jennings Bryan? | Democratic opposition to McKinley; from Nebraska; seen as "New Moses" or a new type of politician; Cross of Gold speech was a sensation; ran for president in 1896, 1900, + 1906 but lost every time |
| What happened in the Bryan vs McKinley battle? | heralded in a new era in American politics; underprivileged vs wealthy; country vs city; agrarian vs industrialists; nobodies vs somebodies |
| What was the difference between McKinley and Bryan? | McKinley was rich and a somebody; Bryan was down-to-earth and a nobody |
| Why was the Spanish American War called a "splendid little war"? | because the war only lasted 10 weeks, America overwhelmingly defeated Spain, and there were little American deaths; soldiers died more due to malaria than in combat |
| Why did Cuba revolt against Spain? | 1895, economic depression and discontent with Spanish rule led to revolution in Cuba |
| Who was Jose Marti? | most influential Cuban nationalist; called for insurrection; led Cuban guerillas in an attack against gov't installations and troops |
| Who was General Valerian Weyler? | general of Spanish troops; responded to Cuban resistance by leading 150,000 Spanish troops there to quell the rising; ordered rural populations into camps (lack of food and support led to thousands of deaths) |
| Why did America take an interest in the conflict between Spain and Cuba? | Cuba produces tobacco and sugar; they invested $50 million in Cuba; 20,000 Cubans were living in the U.S. at the time |
| Why did America get involved in the conflict between Spain and Cuba? | because it was a humanitarian issue |
| What territories did America gain after the Spanish American War? | Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Cuba |
| What were the benefits of the land America gained after the Spanish American War? | became a more global nation, gave them access to all over the world, made U.S. an industrialized global superpower |
| Who was Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolf Hearst? How are they related? | Pulitzer was the editor of the newspaper New York World; Hearst was the editor of the newspaper New York Journal; they both made a fortune off of their yellow journalism that heightened the conflict between Spain and the U.S. |
| What factors contributed to growing clamor for American intervention for Cuban independence from Spain? | exaggerated accounts by the American yellow press; De Lomé letter insulting President McKinley from a Spanish ambassador; sinking of the Maine battleship in Havana harbor |
| What was McKinley's response to the Spanish tension? | wanted to reach a diplomatic conclusion because he already experienced the tragedies of war in the Civil War |
| Who was Dr. Walter Reed? | found the reason for Malaria, mosquitos; hospitals are named after him; presidents always go to these hospitals |
| Who were the Buffalo Soldiers? | aka Smoked Yankees; African-Americans (Negro Cavalry) who served in the war; were recruited bc miliary officials thought they could resist tropical diseases |
| Who were the Rough Riders? | most famous unit that fought in the Spanish American war; led by Theodore Roosevelt, who quit his job as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead them; trained in San Antonio Texas; fought w/ Buffalo Soldiers to capture San Juan Hill |
| What did the Treaty of Paris (1898) call for? | Spanish recognition of Cuban independence; cession of Puerto Rico, Guam + Philippine Islands for $20 million |
| Who was Emilio Aguinaldo? | lead Filipino insurgents in a guerilla war against American take over of the islands |
| What groups emerged after the Treaty of Paris (1898)? | the anti-imperialists and the proponents of imperialism |
| What wars ended with a Treaty of Paris? | French-Indian War; American Revolution; Spanish-American War |
| What was the Teller Amendment? | ensured Cuba's political independence; U.S. had occupation in Cuba until 1902 |
| What was the Platt Amendment? | passed in 1901; guaranteed Cuba's independence by forbidding them from entering any other foreign treaty; reserved the rights of the U.S. to intervene to protect its independence |
| What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? | 1960s, Cuba, who was under Fidel Castro, began to associate with the Soviet Union, whose leader was Nikita Khrushchev; evolves into a showdown with John F. Kennedy; Soviet Union backed down |
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