Read the passage. Our political failures . . . are simply ridiculous. But they are ours. . . . Why not see it so and say it?

. . . But no one class is at fault, nor any one breed, nor any particular interest or group of interests. The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

–The Shame of the Cities,
Lincoln Steffens,
1904

Many urban immigrant communities tended to support political machines despite their inherent corruption because

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Match the vocabulary word with its meaning. 1. capitalism to change or improve something by correcting faults or removing abuses 2. chattel an economic system based on private ownership and competition motivated by profit 3. imperialism policy extending political, economic, or military rule over another 4. indentured an economic system where colonies supply goods to the mother country 5. mercantilism an agreement committing one person to be another's slave for a certain period of time 6. reform a type of slavery where the slave is the sole property of the master with no rights