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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.
The big issue was slavery
Basically, the superior weaponry and technology enabled Europeans to dominate the globe, and colonize the Americas.
Many peoples, particularly in the Americas, the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa, did not develop the sort of highly specialized economies that Europeans did, which ultimately became their downfall as European colonialists overwhelmed the natives in each region. This ultimately shifted the center of industrial output and economic power to Europe, in a process that would eventually be termed <em>The Great Divergence</em>. This also had the effect of knocking other great civilizations, such as the Indians and Chinese, down a peg and establishing European dominance over them as well.
