Carter was very unpopular and blamed for the poor economy
The man is probably homeless. The Great Deoression was not caused by reckless spending, it was actually the opposite. Americans were so fearful of losing money, they stopped trusting banks. Banks closed due to bankruptcy and money in circulation decreased. Americans did not want to spend money so employees were cut when companies overproduced. Many could not mortgages and became homeless - because they saved their money instead of spending it
To begin with, a political machine is an organization in which an organization gains support via promising rewards to those who keep them in power. It's designed to keep a particular group in power by promising favors. Typically, immigrants who first arrived here were impoverished, so political machines became so successful because they would promise to set immigrants up with homes or jobs or food so long as they had their vote.
So in short:
Who: Organizations whose main goals were getting and keeping power.
What: They essentially bribed immigrants for their votes.
Why: Political Machines did this to stay in power.
Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Provided railroad companies land free of charge.
In order to help expand railroads throughout the country after the civil war, congress made railroads expand significantly; bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy.
