Muckrakers & Reformers Facts

William Tweed, New York's most notorious political machine boss, once offered political cartoonist Thomas Nast $500,000 to stop attacking Tweed's Tammany Hall operation in his popular caricatures....

"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it." "Everybdy is talkin' these days about Tammany men growin' rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin' the distinction between h...

Chicago's black population, as a proportion of the city's total population in 1900: 2% Chicago's black population, as a proportion of the city's total population in 1960: almost 25% Black populatio...

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assimilation, assimilated The process through which a particular immigrant group abandons its ethnic traditions to adopt the cultural mores of mainstream America. Christian messianism Messianism is...