Tweed Ring

The postwar era was filled with corruptness and was polluted with indecency. The infamous Tweed Ring in New  York city vividly displayed these lack of ethics that were typical of the age. Burly Boss Tweed employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to get as much as $200 million . He dispensed jobs and contracts in return for political support and bribes. Tweed was later discovered and imprisoned by Samuel J. Tilden , a New York attorney. Tweed was eventually put behind bars and died in jail.