Immigrants
What is naturalization?
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is a graft?
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city, offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support.
What are political machines?
NYC's powerful democratic political machine.
What is Tammany Hall?
This helped immigrants with naturalization, housing, and jobs.
What are political machines?
120 counts of fraud & extortion.
What were Tweed's crimes?
The immigrants provided these for political bosses.
What are votes?
Controlled access to municipal jobs and business licenses, and influenced the courts and other municipal agencies.
Who are political bosses?
A group of corrupt politicians led in defrauding the city.
What was the Tweed Ring?
Educated beyond grammar school and could speak in immigrants in their own language.
Who are precint captains and political bosses?
By using fake names.
How did party faithfuls cast a needed amount of votes?
The head of Tammany Hall.
Worked his way up from precinct captain to Democratic city boss in Kansas City by aiding Italian, African-American, & Irish voters in his ward.
Who is "Big Jim"?
A political cartoonist who helped arise public outrage against Tammany Hall's graft.
Who is Thomas Nast?