Organizers who “deliver” the votes are often rewarded with patronage jobs. However, patronage can result in poorer service to the citizens because appointees may be neither qualified for their jobs nor interested in performing them. Control of both elective and appointed posts also gives a machine control of government salaries and revenues, which can be used to enrich the party at the public’s expense. For example, the machine may accept donations or kickbacks from businesses in return for such favours as tax or zoning concessions or the award of lucrative public-works contracts. In some cities, machine business dealings have included accepting money from organized-crime syndicates in exchange for protection
"The act led to violent conflicts between settlers in the Great Plains over the issue of expanding slavery to new territories" is the one among the following choices given in the question that <span>best explains how the Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed to the tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War. The correct option is option "C".</span>
Answer: Etruscans, Greeks, Carthaginians, Western Roman Empire, Western Europe.
Answer
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The creation of NATO was seen as a tool of containment against USSR.
Explanation
When the western European countries and America unified the military power, it was viewed as a strategy against containment of the USSR. Then West Germany joined that alliance, soviet union was threatened and the response led to the Warsaw Pact 1955 that had a significant effect on policies for both sides in the cold war.
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