What was the secret to tweed’s success as long as it lasted?

He owned elected officials by virtue of his running and help their campaigns in return for loyalty to defraud the gov.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

briefly explain support for the argument that the articles of confederation succeeded in guiding the us through its first decade

northwest ordinance: