HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gilded Age, Haymarket Affair, Social Gospel

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2013
• Professor: Daniel Elkin

Document Summary

Lecture objective establish the unresponsive and corrupt nature of gilded age politics and the sources of reform in this period. The gilded age tagged by mark twain - 1870s-1890s meaning that it looks good from the outside but when you scratch off the surface it"s really, actually, shit: characteristics. Politics in a gilded age: corruption: the nature of politics. Congress is the rockstar of gilded age politics: initiating legislation and political power. President: more of just a figurehead , uncolorful with unremarkable administrations, the corruption of politics. National level congressmen and legislatures serving on corporate board and receiving kick-backs and sweetheart deals. The tweed ring william tweed, mayor of ny, represents breed of politician that is in government literally for power and money: lack philosophy, agenda, direction. Politics in the gilded age: dead center: the politics of dead center. Vote the way you shot civil war influence still. Democrats get a confederate pension going at least at upper level.