PPT-Political Corruption in the Gilded Age

Bell Work Please respond to the scenario below in your notebook A company wants a road fixed in front of their business because its terrible condition is costing them customers but getting the repairs approved by the city and finding the money for the project could take years There are many other roads that need to be fixed in the city The mayor goes to the business owner and offers to fix the road immediately but only if the owner agrees to vote for him and to donate heavily to his campaign in the next election. The . Rise. of Big Business. Essential Question. :. Was the rise of industry good for the United States?. . A Brassy, Flamboyant Age. Gilded Age. :. {Reconstruction (1877). --. Progressive Era (1901)}. The . Rise. of Big Business. Essential Question. :. What factors led to the rise of the American Industrial Revolution from 1870 to 1900?. Warm-Up Question:. Examine the image on the next slide & answer the question: . 1877-1900. The Gilded Age. Name comes from the title . of an 1873 Mark Twain . book. Referred to . the “superficial glitter” of the new wealth that developed in the late . 1800s. Dominated by a belief in . Political Machines. The Gilded Age. 1870’s-1900. . Name of a . book written by Mark Twain. and Charles Dudley Warner in . The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. (1873), satirizing what they believed to be an . Concern about corruption. Aristotle(350 B.C.E.). The Politics. “to protect the treasury from being defrauded, let all money be issued openly in front of the whole city, and let copies of the accounts be deposited in various wards” . Test Analysis. Where are we now?. Hayes wins the presidency because he promises to end . Reconstruction. Reconstruction was forced acceptance of freed slaves, imposed by the North on the South. Food for Thought: should we force people to be moral?. 1877-1900. The Gilded Age. Name comes from the title . of an 1873 Mark Twain . book. Referred to . the “superficial glitter” of the new wealth that developed in the late . 1800s. Dominated by a belief in . p.vezina@bham.ac.uk. . Intro. Corruption is one of the biggest problems facing poor countries. Read the intro to Economic Gangsters!. How can we measure it?. Transparency international. Index based on experts’ perceptions. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at . www.boundless.com. Available on the Boundless Teaching Platform. Using Boundless Presentations. The Appendix. The appendix is for you to use to add depth and breadth to your lectures. You can simply drag and drop slides from the appendix into the main presentation to make for a richer lecture experience.. American author . Mark Twain. To “gild” something is to lay a thin layer of gold. over some rougher/cheaper base material. Gilded Age. Refers to the period after the Civil War through 1900. Period of great economic and population growth. TIME MAGAZINE. Create A Front Cover of your Robber Barron. TIME Magazine Format. Date the reflects the time of your Robber Barron. Interesting quote/summary . of . your . cover story. Cover Story of your Robber Barron. Section 6.3 (230-232) . The Spirit of the Gilded Age. The . Rossers. Today’s Agenda. September 21, 2015. Collect “letter home” paragraph. Reminder: HIPE (Essay or Presentation) due in 1 week. Put finished slide show in my Inbox by Monday morning. Section 6.3 (230-232) . The Spirit of the Gilded Age. The . Rossers. Today’s Agenda. September 21, 2015. Collect “letter home” paragraph. Reminder: HIPE (Essay or Presentation) due in 1 week. Put finished slide show in my Inbox by Monday morning. Evidence from . Sub-Saharan Africa. Rabah. . Arezki. Thorvaldur. . Gylfason. CESifo. Area Conference on . Macro, Money and International Finance 2012 . Munich 23-24 March 2012. outline. We examine the effect of the interaction between resource...