What was tammany hall’s role in government in new york city in the late 1800s?
tammany hall was a political machine that stole money from the city treasury.
tammany hall convinced leaders of political machines to the poor.
tammany hall steered other political machines away from corruption.
tammany hall worked to reform government and put qualified people in office.

The correct answer is that Tammany Hall was a political machine that stole money from the city treasury.

Tammany Hall was a political machine of the Democratic Party of the United States that played an important paper in the control of the policy of the city of New York, and in the aid so that the immigrants, mainly Irish, they will participate in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s, acting as what is known at the present time as a network of influence peddling or a political patronage network.

Normally it controlled nominations for the Democratic Party in Manhattan from the triumph of Fernando Wood in 1854, to that of Fiorello LaGuardia (nominally of the Republican Party) in 1934, from which time it began to weaken until it disappeared.

It is suspected of having stolen money from the New York City Treasury to finance its candidates' campaigns, being until today the main example of corruption in America.

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