WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Political Machines and the Spoils System
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Chinese Immigrants
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Indians (Native Americans)
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The need to regulate State Governments
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 is intended to provide Federal managers with the flexibility to improve Government operations and productivity while, at the same time, protect employees from unfair or unwarranted practices.
Detailed explanation-2: -The spoils system flourished unchallenged in the United States from the 1820s until after the Civil War, at which time the system’s abuses prompted civil-service reforms designed to cut down the number of government posts filled by appointment and to award jobs on the basis of merit.
Detailed explanation-3: -The civil service system was created to select employees of federal government on merit rather than relationships. The spoils system fired political opponents and replaced them with party loyalists.
Detailed explanation-4: -Garfield by a rejected office-seeker in 1881 that the calls for civil service reform intensified. Moderation of the spoils system at the federal level with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.