What factor was influential in driving expansion of the federal bureaucracy in the post–Civil War era?

a. the expansion of voting rights to African American men
b. the elimination of the spoils system
c. a series of poor harvests and agricultural distribution problems
d. the growing incidence of price fixing and other unfair business practices


Answer: d

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