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Title: The Emergence of the Political Machine


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Section 3
  • The Emergence of the Political Machine

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  • Political Machine organized group that
    controlled the political party and offered
    services to voters and businesses IN EXCHANGE for
    political (vote) or financial support
  • City Boss leader of the machine
  • Urban, lower-class people were the natural allies
    of the political machine.

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  • Graft any type of illegal or unethical use of
    political influence for personal gain
  • Kickbacks illegal payments for services
  • Political Machines used both to gain wealth

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Tweed Ring
  • Led by William Marcy Tweed
  • Boss Tweed

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  • Tweed was leader of
  • Tammany Hall name of the New York City
    political machine
  • 1868-1871
  • One of the first, most powerful and most corrupt
    of all machines

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  • Thomas Nast cartoonist for New York Times and
    Harpers Weekly
  • Cartoons revealed corruption of Tweed

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Famous Nast Cartoon about Tweed
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  • Tweed convicted and jailed
  • Escaped to Spain
  • Captured with the use of a Nast cartoon
  • Imprisoned in U. S. again died 1878
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