Practice Quiz

CLEP US Government

Category - Gov. Institutions

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The purpose of the Pendleton Act of 1883 was to:
  1. Provide public funding for presidential campaigns.
  2. Create government corporations.
  3. Establish the Justice Department.
  4. Reduce patronage by creating a civil service.
  5. Ensure that Civil War debts were being repaid.
Explanation
Answer: D - The Pendleton Act created the civil service system, whereby those hired and promoted in government bureaucracies were to be chosen based on merit and tenure. Before this, most bureaucrats got their jobs from politicians in exchange for political loyalty or returning some sort of favor. Politicians decided this system no longer worked in their favor after President Garfield was shot by someone angry that he didn’t get a job.
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