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The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

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The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"This measure was certainly undignified.It does not become a Congress that has been battling with the colossal artillery of impeachment to descend to throwing mud. Such conduct is neither royal,republican,nor democratic;it is simply boys' play.It isn't worthwhile to say that the reduction of the President's clerical force was made in the virtuous interest of retrenchment,for the stupidest of us all know better than that.Its moving spring was an unworthy and an ungraceful little spite.They might as well have estimated the capabilities of the Chief Magistrate's kitchen force,and discharged a cook or two.There is not any wisdom in this kind of warfare.The people cannot applaud it.Everybody is willing to see a fair stand-up fight between the President and his Congressional master,but nobody is willing to see either of them descend to scratching and hair-pulling.These parties stand for the United States.They represent the American nation,and it is not a nation that fights in that way."
Mark Twain,Chicago Republican,1868
-Which of the following events is Twain referring to in the excerpt?

Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned stimulus to evoke similar responses after the response has been conditioned.

Conditioned Responding

A learning process in which an individual develops a response to a previously neutral stimulus by associating it with another stimulus that already elicits a response.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, responding only to the specific stimulus that is conditioned.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.