The political machine arose after the Civil War, where it became the basis of government in several major cities. The political machine was an organization that controlled a political party in a city, and it offered services to voters in exchange for their support. The political machine consisted of a pyramid system. At the bottom of the pyramid were the precinct wards and captains. Their du

ties were to gain voters support on a city block or neighborhood, and report their success to the ward boss. The middle of the pyramid held the ward bosses. The ward bosses secured the votes received by giving jobs and favors to the poor. Finally, the top of the pyramid consisted of the city boss. He controlled all the activities of each political party, as well as city services such as the police and certain business affairs. With the effort of each part of the pyramid, this new form of government seemed to be successful, until matters were taken into hands of greed.

Why hadn't the political machine and the pyramid work? Either the pyramid gave the political machine too many opportunities to demand it's own desires and put society after themselves, or the balance of power just hadn't measured out correctly and people were taking advantage of each other. Even though a portion of the political machin

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