1. The growth of cities such as new york and chicago and their need for city services
2. Political machines were groups that were designed to keep a particular political party of group of people in power
3. Local precinct workers, captains, ward boss, city boss.
4. someone who gained votes for a particular political group by trading goods and services to the poor and immigrants
5. something positive about a political machine was the fact they helped people but it’s also a negative since this led to rigged elections
