1. How did Thomas Nast help to bring about Boss Tweed’s downfall? Thomas Nast is highly regarded for putting forth detailed political cartoons, depicting Boss Tweed, which later on led to his downfall. He sought to bring out the corruption that was occurring behind closed doors and showed the flaws within millionaires such as Boss Tweed. The immigrants and less educated were unable to read and by depicting corruption through pictures Boss Tweed could not …showed first 75 words of 465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 465 total…with Tweed began to give away his mastermind plans and authority could further convict him with enough evidence. The pictures helped people realize that “big business” was not going to grow through dishonest dealings and people like Nast made sure of this. The pictures were what the least educated of people understood and what Tweed hated because he could not buy Nast’s silence and let his fate be guided by the many political cartoons.