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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did Richard Daley begin his fifth term?
2. What made this candidate for Cook County Sheriff an attractive choice for the election?
3. Why did a particular important figure frustrate Richard Daley during the period of protests against segregated neighborhoods?
4. What became the most consuming controversy during Richard Daley's first two terms as mayor?
5. What did the public officials do in the 1970 scandal that compounded the problems for Richard Daley?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Richard Daley's control over the Machine has been credited with providing the votes that helped John F. Kennedy defeat Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. If this is so it not only dramatically changed history, but it also showed that the American electoral system was corrupted by political influences. Take one of three subjects for a three paragraph essay:
1. How would the country have been different if Richard Daley's Machine was not involved in the 1960 election and Richard Nixon had become president?
2. What are the consequences to the country if a metropolitan mayor can determine who becomes president? Are there any benefits? What are they? What are the damages to democracy that is posed by such a situation?
3. What are the threats to justice and liberty if elections can be manipulated by powerful individuals? How can such power be confronted?
Essay Topic 2
Based upon what you know of how criminals had infiltrated Chicago City Hall in the 1920's and 1930's, why do you think that it was important for Richard Daley to develop a relationship with Abraham Marovitz, a prosecutor who had associations with gangsters. How could that relationship make Daley valuable to the Cook County Democrat Party?
Essay Topic 3
Think of the rules of Chicago politics: ". . . help your friends, hurt your enemies, adjust a case through the police and add up the votes until they come out right. Most important rule--don't get caught. Don't repeat what you hear." How did these rules help to develop a closed political system that exerted control over what was then the country's second most populated city? Write a full examination of what it would take for these rules to have control over the city and how each contributes to the strength of the other. Which do you consider most important in a political system? Why?
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