WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Providing services to citizens in exchange for political support
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Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
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Using police forces to protect organized labor
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Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference
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Detailed explanation-1: -Voting strategy Many machines formed in cities to serve immigrants to the U.S. in the late 19th century who viewed machines as a vehicle for political enfranchisement. Machine workers helped win elections by turning out large numbers of voters on election day.
Detailed explanation-2: -Consistent with their reputations for greed and corruption, nineteenth-century city bosses and their “machines” retained control of city governments by: providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support.
Detailed explanation-3: -Political machines would control cities completely by rigging elections, buying votes, and then after winning all the elections they would do whatever they wanted and give jobs to supporters. The bosses were the people who controlled the entire operation.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the late 1800s, city bosses commonly assumed control over city governments. They did not gain power legally, and the bosses were not elected to office. They used blackmail and bribery to convince legal city officials to grant favors to and to follow the wishes of the city bosses.