AP U. S. History Flashcards by Stephen Armstrong

Author:Stephen Armstrong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Political Machine

Political Machine

• An organization that controls the politics of a city or state, sometimes by illegal or quasi-legal means

• A machine employs large numbers of people to do its “dirty work” for which they are given a government job or are allowed to pocket bribes or kickbacks

Tammany Hall

Tammany Hall

• Political machine that ran New York City Democratic Party and city politics beginning in 1870

• Model for the political machines that dominated politics in many American cities well into the 20th century

• William Marcy Tweed was a famous “boss”

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