Tammany Hall operatives worked to win the support of immigrants by
A) teaching them the value of sobriety, punctuality, and thrift.
B) fighting to establish anti-poverty governmental programs.
C) making promises that they were unable or unwilling to keep.
D) denouncing nativism and blocking anti-immigrant legislation.
E) encouraging immigrants to rise up and overthrow capitalist society.
Ans: D) denouncing nativism and blocking anti-immigrant legislation.
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a. Guatemala. b. Cuba. c. Chile. d. Peru. e. Argentina.
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