politicalmachine

SALLY DID THIS!!!!!!!!!! Boss Tweed

A political machine was a group dedicated to making dure a paticular party was in power. usually it was run by a boss. Boss Tweed was one of the most famous of these. It worked like this: an immigrant gets off from the steerage section of the boat with practally nothing. And out pops the Boss who offers to give you a job and some shelter all you have to do is to vote for who he tells you to. he does this to thousands of people. and lets say bobby joe want to run for mayor so he goes up to his freindly neioborhood political machine boss and give him a thousand or two dollars. boss tweed calls his men who are kind enough to give our immigrant a ride to the polls and helped him vote.

sources: my imagination, Mr Sts AWSOME lectures, Pathway to the Present for my pictures boss tweeds [|http://www.americanheritage.com/assets/images/articles/web/20051027-boss-tweed.jpg] and the political machines http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/Rams_horn/images/PoliticalMachine.JPG