What role did political machines serve in cities

The role of political machines were that they wanted to gain as many votes as possible from immigrants in large cities. To do this, they heavily helped immigrants with many of their needs to gain political support. Although political machines were very corrupt, they helped out the immigrants greatly.

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satisfying voter needs and making the bosses wealthy

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no

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they had many gains 1 one freedom for slaves the major cause of the civil war is that the   north wanted freedom for slaves but the south didn; t creaitng the civil war

another gain they have is poltiical influence

poltiical influence is a big thing everywhere even now peoplle are always trying to get the head up in poltics thats what they did by giving the republicians a good name for freeing slaves