What’s the definition of tinderboot?

What method did party bosses use to maintain the power of their political machines?

Which source would best a historian understand the effect of the great chicago fire on families? a. a biography of a chicago family displaced by the fire b. a letter from a grandmother in new york to her family in chicago c. a newspaper editorial about families who were displaced d. an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire

The vocabulary word meaning causing destruction isrevenueruinousrepair