How did the Pendleton Act reform the system of hiring and firing federal employees?
a. It required hiring and firing decisions to be based on partisan loyalty rather than merit.
b. It required hiring and firing decisions to be based on merit rather than partisan loyalty.
c. It continued to allow hiring on the basis of merit, but made firing federal employees easier.
d. It continued to allow hiring on the basis of partisan loyalty, but made firing federal employees more difficult.
b
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A.) the exclusive use of mail-in and other types of voting methods in the states of the Pacific Northwest B.) the closing of nearly 1000 polling places, many of them in southern black communities C.) the inability of rural white midwestern voters to get to polling places D.) the suspension of 50000 voter registrations in Georgia, a disproportionate amount for them from African Americans
The early chief justice whose decisions generally gave the broadest possible sweep to federal powers was
A) ?Roger Taney. B) ?Frederick Vinson. C) ?John Marshall. D) ?Alexander Hamilton. E) ?John Harlan.