Boss Tweed Industrial Revolution
Boss tweed is chiefly remembered for the cronyism of his tammany hall political machine through which he bilked the city of new york of massive sums of money.
Boss tweed industrial revolution. By the beginning of the twentieth century per capita income and industrial production in the united states exceeded that of any other country except britain. Between 1868 and 1869 he led the tweed reign a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city. The person know as boss tweed was william m. Tweed became notorious as boss tweed in new york city.
Thomas nast s campaign against boss tweed in the years following the civil war a former street brawler and lower east side political fixer named william m. He gave generously to the poor and authorized the handouts of christmas turkeys and winter coal to prospective supporters. Network was created the corporation became the dominant form of business organization and a managerial revolution transformed business operations. He was a member of the us house of representatives from the 5th district of new york.
Because of the industrial revolution tycoons such as carnegie and rockefeller had been made possible as well as corrupt government officials such as boss tweed. Tweed never served as mayor. The most notorious political boss of the age was william boss tweed of new york s tammany hall. Jacob riis how the other half lives.
Boss tweed april 3 1823 april 12 1878 was an american politician who as the leader of the political organization tammany hall controlled new york city politics in the years following the civil war. The public offices he held at times were always minor. Boss tweed american politician who with his tweed ring cronies systematically plundered new york city of sums estimated at between 30 million and 200 million. Born in new york city in 1823 boss tweed was a city alderman by the time he was 28 years old.
Nast used cartoons to attack these ideas. He was finally exposed by the new york times by the satiric cartoons of thomas nast and by the efforts of reform lawyer samuel j. Boss tweed also was a powerful democratic political machine in 1868. Tweed leveraged his power as a landowner and corporate board member to extend his influence throughout the city.