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What role did political machines serve in cities? A. ensuring public harmony and safety

Beducating and serving the public good
Cproviding honest voting and experienced public servants
Dalleviating racism and ethnic prejudice
Esatisfying voter needs and making the bosses wealthy

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Political machines were meant to satisfy voter needs and make the bosses wealthy.

Further Explanation:

Political machines refers to a system in which political organizations control city politics through bribery, fraud, and other unethical behaviors. The goal of a political machine was to get a certain candidate elected. In order to do this, political bosses would influence voters to pick their candidates. These bosses influenced people to vote for their candidate by:

A) Promising them payments.

B) Offering them jobs.

C) Threat of violence or retaliation.

These bosses would then have success in getting their candidate elected. Usually, these candidates ran for positions like mayor.

After the candidate was elected, they would then give favors to the political boss who got them elected. For example, if a political boss helped a mayor to get elected, that mayor would hire the boss in some capacity.

If the boss had a cleaning business, then the mayor would hire his cleaning company. Not only would the mayor hire the boss's company to do work for him, the mayor would pay the boss extraordinary amounts of money for his services. This corrupt system dominated politics during the Gilded Age (late 1800's through early 1900's).

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Key Details:

Topic: American History

Grade Level: 9-12, College

Keywords: political machines, voter fraud, Gilded Age, city politics

The correct option is (E) satisfying voter needs and making the bosses wealthy.


Further Explanation:

In U.S. politics, the political machine is a party organization that is headed by a small autocratic group or a single boss, commands votes to maintain administrative and political control of a country, city, or state.

In the 19th century, the rapid growth in America,  a result of both migration and immigration from rural areas that created ‘huge problems’ for ‘city governments’ which were often ‘poorly structured’ and unable to provide services. In those conditions, ‘political machines’ such as Tammany Hall and they are run by William Magear Tweed in ‘New York City’- were able to build a ‘loyal voter following’, especially among ‘immigrants groups’, by performing favors as providing housing or jobs.


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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Political Machines  

Subject: Social Studies


Keywords: voter needs, wealthy, political machine, administrative, political, immigrants group, housing or jobs


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