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Digital History: Civil Service Reform HandoutDigital History: Civil Service Reform Handout
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1070L
Handout

Digital History: Civil Service Reform

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Describes the problem of political patronage among government employees, that led to the passing of the Pendleton Act under President Chester Arthur. The Act brought in a merit system for employment in a government job.

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civil service reform, federal civil service, federal civil service system, political patronage, spoils system, chester arthur, pendleton act, politics and reform 1877-1896

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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