Tweed, Tammany Hall, and Political Machines | VIDEO & LESSON

All of these resources go with this engaging story-lecture Youtube Video on The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall & Boss Tweed. It also teaches Gilded Age Corruption in general!

As students watch they complete a follow-along interactive note sheet that could be completed digitally or with pen and paper. It also has a quick 7 question Google Form quiz to check for understanding. Lastly, it has an extension lesson that would take about 60 minutes. Students then complete an extension activity where they analyze a Thomas Nast Cartoon with scaffolded DOK questions and then create their own political cartoon on political machines. There are suggested topics and requirements to help support in making the cartoons. And there are answer keys for everything. : )

The video is not just engaging but also teaches in a way to help struggling learners. It tells the absolutely amazing story of how Boss Tweed ran Tammany Hall and exemplified Gilded Age corruption and graft, and how Thomas Nast's cartoons took him down. The video also layers in essential standards and history content focused on corruption in the Gilded Age.

My other lessons on the Gilded Age:

1) Standard Oil and the Rise of Big Business
2) Haymarket Riot and the Labor Movement
3) How the Other Half Lived: Immigration and Urbanization
4) Corruption: Tweed, Nast, and the Fall of Tammany Hall

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