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Tweed Ring, Political corruption and machine
politics, powered by their urban immigrant constituencies, led to contentious
fighting between different social classes and groups, as this Thomas Nast
cartoon suggests. New York City's "Boss" Tweed was the most notorious of
political bosses in the 1860s and early 1870s in northeastern cities. Source:
Harper's Weekly, 1871.
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