1. WARM UP= PAGE 17
Going Over Exit Tickets

2. Exit Ticket: Urbanization
What factors contributed to urbanization? (why did ppl move to cities) = AT LEAST 2 reasons
2. What were the problems that resulted from rapid urban growth?
3. What thing (vocab word) offered solutions, but in a bad way, how were they corrupt?

3. Marcy Emerick PD:7 Question: Urbanization
1. People moved to cities for jobs and because of farm technology in rural areas. African Americans also moved North to cities because of discrimination in the South.
2. Some of the problems of rapid urbanization were: pollution, overcrowded tenements, diseases, crime, transportation, fires and sanitation.
3. Political machines offered solutions to these problems by promising to help immigrants and building things they need like fire houses and police stations, but they were corrupt because they would only help if they got votes or money.

4. Review Problems with Urbanization
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5. Gilded Age: Political Machines
BPQ: How did Political Machines come to power and what was their function/role in society?
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Political Machines
Pages 19-20

6. Political Machine
Gangs of New York Political Machines

7. Voter Turnout

8. Graft

9. Kickback

10. Tammany Hall

11. Boss Tweed

12. Tweed Ring

13. Thomas Nast

14. Thomas Nast and Boss Tweed Video= page 17

15. Central Question: What was the role of political machines in the Gilded Age? Introduction: In the late 19th and early 20th century, political cartoons were a way to influence public opinion about national issues. Thomas Nast was a cartoonist who was critical of the political machines such as Tammany Hall. What information can you infer from the cartoons?

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17. Doc B

18. Doc C

19. Doc D

20. Doc E

21. Doc F

22. Document Analysis Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft, G.W. Plunkitt
Answer the questions

23. Exit Ticket: Political Machines
1. What were some of the problems of urbanization? (at least 3)
2. What organization tried to fix these problems?
3. Explain how that organization worked in NYC. (include words like: Boss Tweed, graft, and kickback)

24. Exit Ticket: Gilded Age
The Gilded age was a period of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization. Pick one of these key topics and explain its impact on American Society. You can use your notes. Needs to be at least 5 sentences. Review is next class Exam covers Settling the West and Gilded Age