The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneathMark Twain What do you think this quote means What is Twain trying to say What are some industrial problems America has during the Industrial Revolution ID: 699777
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“The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath.”--Mark Twain
What
do you think this quote means?
What is Twain trying to say?
What are some industrial problems America has during the Industrial Revolution
that we’ve talked about?
How do you think these issues will be
dealt with?Slide2
Gilded Age:
1877-1900
Gilded Age -Period when corruption existed in society but was overshadowed by the wealth of the period
What do you think the word Gilded means?
-Is when something is golden/beautiful on the surface but is really cheap/worthless underneathSlide3Slide4Slide5
Overview of the Gilded Age:
Directions/Expectations:
Using your
drake voice
Read/Analyze the overview article with your groupComplete your Term Chart about the Gilded Age
Answer the worksheet questionsBe prepared to discuss!Slide6
The Rise of Political Machines
Political Machines –an organized group of people that controlled the activities of a political party
By giving voters services they needed, the machine won their vote and controlled city governmentSlide7Slide8
Thomas
NastThomas
Nast
–political cartoonist who was critical of political machines and
Boss TweedSlide9
Background!
Let’s read background together
Then we will go through directions for the rest of the worksheet!Slide10
Directions/Expectations:
Using your drake voice
Fill out your primary source observation worksheet
Analyze
the political cartoon created by Thomas NastBe prepared to share your reflections!Slide11
Observe, Reflect, Question: Look at
your worksheet, and analyze the political cartoon using these questions
Question:
What do you still wonder about? Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Observe:Describe what you see, what do you notice first? What people and objects are shown? What is the setting? What, if any, words do you see?
Reflect: Why do you think this image was made? What’s happening in the image? When do you think it was made? If someone made this today, what would be different? What would be the same? What inferences or educated guesses can you make about the document?Slide12
Primary Source Review:
1. Under the Tammany tiger’s victim is a torn paper
that reads “LAW.” What is its significance
?
2. Boss Tweed and his cronies, portrayed as noblemen, watch from the stands on the left. Thecartoon’s caption reads
“What are you going to do about it?” What effect do you think Nast wanted this cartoon to have?Slide13
Symbols in the Cartoon!
The figure of Columbia is being crushed under the Tammany Tiger (which represents Boss Tweeds’ political machine.) The law is
broken
beneath her.Slide14
Corruption in
Government
Patronage or Spoils System- giving government jobs to loyal party workers or friends
-What do you think would be the downside to this?
Were not qualifiedUsed position to get money from government (graft
)Consequence: President James Garfield is assassinated Chester Arthur becomes President because Garfield is dead
James
Garfield 21
st
President
Charles
GuiteauSlide15
Exit Ticket:
•Political
M
achine
•Graft•Boss Tweed•Patronage/Spoils System•
James A. Garfield•Chester A. Arthur•Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
You have
10 minutes
to
quietly
complete the following at your own desk.
Choose
3 terms
from the list below and
describe what or who
it was, the historical significance, give
EXAMPLES
, use
2-3 COMPLETE SENTENCES