The Example of New York's Boss Tweed Illustrated

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.