WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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The act of stealing money from gov’t projects
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The practice of not allowing certain people to vote.
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The practice of appointing people based on political support, not merit
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The act of influencing elections unfairly
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Detailed explanation-1: -spoils system, also called patronage system, practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favours.
Detailed explanation-2: -Political patronage is the appointment or hiring of a person to a government post on the basis of partisan loyalty. Elected officials at the national, state, and local levels of government use such appointments to reward the people who help them win and maintain office.
Detailed explanation-3: -In some countries the term is used to describe political patronage or patronal politics, which is the use of state resources to reward individuals for their electoral support.
Detailed explanation-4: -Another name for the Patronage bureaucracy is the “spoils system”. Its traditional home has been the U.S.A. through patronage had full sway even in the U.K., till the middle of the 19th century when public jobs were given as a personal favor or political award.