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Grade 8 Industrial Revolution & Gilded Age — Reading Comprehension — Political Machines Free printable reading comprehension passage about political machines. Students read the passage and answer questions to build understanding. For 8th Grade (ages 13–14).
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Political Machines LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. A political machine was an organisation that controlled a city's votes by trading practical help for loyalty. Tammany Hall in New York is the best-known example: ward captains found jobs, paid rent in an emergency, and helped immigrants navigate courts and paperwork, and in return expected the family's votes. The machine paid for this with graft — inflated public contracts, kickbacks, and outright theft, of which the Tweed Ring took tens of millions from New York's treasury. Judging machines requires holding two facts together: they were genuinely corrupt, and they delivered services that no city government of the time provided to poor immigrants. Reformers eventually broke them with civil service exams, secret ballots, and professional city agencies that did the same work without the debt of loyalty. Questions: 1 What did a machine trade for votes? 2 How did machines pay for the help they gave? 3 What reforms eventually broke the machines? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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Political Machines LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. A political machine was an organisation that controlled a city's votes by trading practical help for loyalty. Tammany Hall in New York is the best-known example: ward captains found jobs, paid rent in an emergency, and helped immigrants navigate courts and paperwork, and in return expected the family's votes. The machine paid for this with graft — inflated public contracts, kickbacks, and outright theft, of which the Tweed Ring took tens of millions from New York's treasury. Judging machines requires holding two facts together: they were genuinely corrupt, and they delivered services that no city government of the time provided to poor immigrants. Reformers eventually broke them with civil service exams, secret ballots, and professional city agencies that did the same work without the debt of loyalty. Questions: 1 What did a machine trade for votes? 2 How did machines pay for the help they gave? 3 What reforms eventually broke the machines? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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