Unit 4 From Prosperity to Poverty Questions As you read the Unit 2 text carefully and participate in subsequent classroom activities, answer the questions below for each chapter. Be sure your answers are thorough and in complete sentences when two lines have been provided for your answer. Chapter 1 Questions The Gilded Age 1. (a) Who coined the term the “Gilded Age” and (b) why was this term used? a. ___________________________________________________________________ b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What were political bosses? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What was the political machine? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What are 3 ways in which political bosses returned favors for the votes they received? a. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. How did political bosses receive kickbacks? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Who was William “Boss” Tweed? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is patronage? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What was the Ohio Gang? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What was the scandal involving the Veteran’s Bureau? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. From what presidential administration did the Veteran’s Bureau Scandal and the Teapot Dome Scandal originate? ______________________________________________________________________