5 gilded age scandals Flashcards
1
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What are the 5 gilded age scandals
A
- Jay Gould scandal
- Whiskey ring
- Credit mobiler
- Sandborn incident
- indian ring scandal
2
Q
What is the Jay Gould scandal
A
Made 20 million from the pacific union
-begins buying a lot of union pacific after it dropped by credit mobiler and tricked everyone
3
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What is the whiskey ring scandal
A
Ben briston begins to investigate whiskey
- whiskey was 70 cents a gallon
- 238 of his staff are all apart of this scandal even the general
- Avoided paying taxes off of it which scammed federal agents from millions of dollars
4
Q
Salary grab act
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5
Q
what is the indian ring scandal
A
if you wanted to own a store on reserved territory you had to bribe Belknap
-he didnt take bribes but his wife did
6
Q
what is the sandborn scandal
A
John Sandborn is supposed to collect taxes but gets to personally keep half his assistent richaedson is also taking half
