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The political machines of the parties were powerful in large part due to the

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Spoils system

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Spoils system refers to a practice which make the representatives or the parties who win the election reward the groups or individuals who help them with some sort of government jobs or projects.

When political machines do this with the majority of representatives in the office, they will become really powerful since they can control what the representatives can and cannot do.

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