The Example of New York's Boss Tweed Illustrated

question 18

Multiple Choice

The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated

• A) the typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.
• B) the concern of urban political bosses with representing the best political and economic interests of their urban constitutients.
• C) the high value on honesty and ethics put on governing during this age.
• D) the inability of the press and the legal establishment to take down a notoriously venal political figure after a lifetime of managing a politically corrupt machine.
• E) the effectiveness of the federal government in ferreting out urban political corruption at an early stage in its development.

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