What Event Served as a Catalyst for the Creation of the Pendleton

question 9

Multiple Choice

What event served as a catalyst for the creation of the Pendleton Act?

• A) the growth of the Republican Party in the 1880s
• B)the expansion of the federal bureaucracy in the 1880s —Consider This: Although patronage expanded the federal bureaucracy during the Gilded Age, it took a dramatic and unanticipated development to encourage civil service reform.
• C)the assassination of James Garfield in 1881
• D)the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876

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