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What did the Pendleton Act do?
 
  A) It established a civil-service commission to prepare competitive exams for federal jobs.
  B) It required the use of silver as well as gold to back paper currency.
  C) It started the policy of having separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
  D) It raised tariff rates.
  E) It gave Congress the power to investigate and oversee railroad activities.

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What did the civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s want?
 
  A) a government bureaucracy that would help free immigrants from poverty.
  B) a professional civil service based on merit and staffed by gentlemen.
  C) a federal law that would appoint Roscoe Conkling director of government personnel.
  D) laws that would help to sustain the dignity of the federal civil service.
  E) individual contributions to a political campaign capped at 500.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 4, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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