WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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graft.
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votes.
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kickbacks.
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wages.
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Detailed explanation-1: -New city dwellers needed jobs, housing, food, heat, and police protection. In exchange for votes, political machines and the party bosses who ran them eagerly provided these necessities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange. Supporters of laissez-faire generally favored this.
Detailed explanation-3: -A political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives-money, political jobs-and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Political machines controlled the politicians and city decision makers. They made sure that enough people came out to vote in elections in order to keep the candidate that they wanted in control. Doing this ensured that laws and decisions made within the city pleased the boss.