" These political machines, such as Tammany Hall of New York, would offer social services such as finding housing and jobs in return for the immigrant"tms vote. The immigrants depended on the political machines just as much as the political machines depended on the immigrants. The machines expected the votes of these immigrants because they really did help them even though they were just using them.
Graft can be described as "honest" and "covert" graft. Honest graft is using taking political knowledge and using it for personal gain. "Covert" graft is the use of political power for personal gain. Machines would grant jobs and other government contracts to those individuals that did them favors. Many of these favors were in the form of votes, but the true reason t
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Graft can be described as "honest" and "covert" graft. Honest graft is using taking political knowledge and using it for personal gain. "Covert" graft is the use of political power for personal gain. Machines would grant jobs and other government contracts to those individuals that did them favors. Many of these favors were in the form of votes, but the true reason to everything is money. When political machines would give out contracts they expected money in return in form of what many called a kickback. Immigrants were given jobs and then they were expected and required to give back a percentage of what they made to the political machines.
Many laws were passed in that late 1800"tms and 1900"tms that restrained many immigrants from ever coming in the United States. The first of these laws was
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