Document C

Political Machines
Document Based Analysis Document D
What tells in holdin' your grip on your district is to go right down
Graph & Chart Analysis Directions: Analyze the following
documents and answer the questions
among the poor families and help them in different ways they need
that follow help... If there's a fire in Ninth, Tenth, or Eleventh Avenue, for
example, any hour of the day or night, I'm usually there with some of
my election district captains as soon as the fire engines... I just get
quarters for them if their clothes were burned up, and fix them up till
they get things runnin' again. It's philanthropy, but it's politics too-
mighty good politics. Who can tell how many votes one of these fires
bring me? The poor are the most grateful people in the world, and,
let me tell you, they have more friends in their neighborhoods than
the rich have in theirs...

Another thing, I can always get a job for a deservin' man. I make it a
point to keep on track of jobs, and it seldom happens that I don't
have a few up my sleeve ready for use.
4. Based on this document, identify one
reason many native-born Americans in the Source: William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905 (New
late 1800s were in favor of restricting York: E.P. Dutton, 1963), 35-36. Excerpt from an interview with
immigration. Plunkitt, a prominent figure in the Tammany political machine
Document A
5. Explain how the relationship between political machines
1. Based on this graph, identify two conditions in their native countries that caused and the public during the Gilded Age mutually beneficial?
immigrants to come to the United States.
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2. Based on this graph, identify one situation in the United States that led to an ________________________
increase of immigrants coming into the nation. ________________________
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Document B 3. According to this bar
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US Immigration 1880-1930 graph, what were the ________________________
top four countries ________________________
from which incoming ________________________
immigrants arrive
during the period 1880
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to 1930? ________________________

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Document E

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6. Based on this photograph, identify one goal of this protest by immigrant workers.
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7. What other requests may worker want that are not mentioned in the photograph
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