A political machine is a "political group that controls or commands small businesses or corporations into voting for the candidate that they think will best suit in a election." In other words it's a boss that tells it's workers to vote for who the boss thinks would be better in a election and in result the workers will receive extra pay or a raise.
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The answer is A.
Rockefeller worked with oil, Vanderbilt did the railroads, Carnegie was leader of the American steel industry, and Astor did fur trade and invested in real estate.
There is a fairy tale called "The Emperor's New Clothes." In the story the Emperor is a vain man and always wants the newest fashions. A couple of swindlers convince him that the clothes they are making him are of such fine quality that only the most elevated people can see them. He can't admit that he's not the most elevated person, so he wears the clothes in the palace, and everyone bows down and says what a fine set of clothes he has because they are afraid to contradict the Emperor. Then he goes out and leads a parade to show off his new clothes to the people (lack of foresight on his part, unless he thinks all his people are highly elevated.) Everyone pretends to admire the clothes except one little boy who yells out "But the Emperor has no clothes." The moral is that because of pretentiousness and social hypocricy people pretend to know about or agree with certain things because it makes them look better. And also, I suppose, that the honesty of the innocent is best.
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He uses emotionally charged language so that the audience is immediately emotionally involved.
Henri Christophe is the name of the emperor who fought in the American revolutionary war.... :)
