Why didn’t the reforms made after president garfield’s assassination completely reduce corruption nationwide?
a. the reforms applied only to state governments.
b. the reforms applied only to the federal government.
c. the reforms applied only to city governments.
d. the reforms applied only to city and state governments.

The problem was that it only affected it only affected employment in the federal government so the answer is b.  Apart from that it only covered 10% of the civilians employed in government.  It was only during succeeding administrations that the law was broadened.

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john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.