APUSH government involved scandals, rebellions, and controversies

tweed rings

1850-1873

boss tweed, political machine that controlled new york, stole $200 million

credit mobilier

1870s

grant by association, union pacific railroad, railroad took money from the government by charging more than it actually cost

whiskey ring

1871-1876

grant by association, whiskey companies bribed the government to avoid taxes

teapot dome

1932-1929

albert fall (secretary of interior), leased navy oil to private industries and was bribed

watergate

1972

richard nixon, burglers broke into the democratic national headquarters, forced nixon to resign after lying under oath

iran contra affair

1985-1987

reagan, oliver north, us sold weapons to iran and gave the profits to rebels in nicaragua

bacon’s rebellion

1676

indentured servants wanted land, rebelled against virginia, they lost and jamestown was burned, south switches to slavery

pontiac’s rebellion

1763

pontiac attacked ohio colonists, proclamation of 1763

paxton boys

1763

killed twenty people from pontiac’s rebellion

shay’s rebellion

1786

mob rebelled over taxes and mortgages

whiskey rebellion

1794

whiskey farmers rebelled over taxes, washington used the military to stop it

xyz affair

1797

three low level french officials tried to bribe the federal government

bonus army

1932

group of soldiers were promised money after wwI, then were denied during the depression

watts riots

1965

violent street take over after a police brutality incident in los angeles

my lai massacre

1968

village in vietnam massacred by american soldiers