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It was due to the fact it offered a trade route.
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<span>The influx of a large number of foreign labor in need of jobs, representation, assistance and recognition. These immigrants could be pooled to provide leverage at the voting booth for the promised patronage of the political machines like Tammany Hall</span>
By process of elimination the answer is D, I know the rest are true.
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