WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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President James Garfield was assassinated.
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the Mugwumps sided with the opposing party.
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the Greenback Party won mid-year elections in 1878.
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Grover Cleveland threatened Republican dominance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Garfield’s assassination by a deranged office seeker amplified the public demand for reform. Civil service reformers established the National Civil Service Reform League and undertook a major public campaign for reform, arguing that the spoils system had played a major role in the assassination of Garfield.
Detailed explanation-2: -Approved on January 16, 1883, the Pendleton Act established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work. Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883.
Detailed explanation-3: -Garfield was elected as a Republican member of the Ohio State Senate in 1859, serving until 1861. He opposed Confederate secession, was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.