Why was the spoils system ultimately discontinued?
a. due to growing concerns about a poorly functioning federal bureaucracy
b. due to public pressure to rationalize the federal bureaucracy
c. due to a Supreme Court decision ruling the spoils system unconstitutional
d. due to the diversification of federal bureaucracy following the Civil War
a
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a. Germany b. France c. Holland d. Greece e. Luxemburg
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A. ?they are currently among the poorest racial minority groups. B. ?Chinese Americans were denied citizenship until the late nineteenth century. C. ?Chinese were banned from immigrating to the United States for a sixty-year period. D. ?Japanese were at one time banned from immigrating to the United States. E. many Japanese Americans were confined to internment camps during World War II.
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