What is the spoils system?
a) the losing party must compete for all of the available jobs.
b) the winning party gives a fair share of jobs to its opponents.
c) the winning party gives only token positions to the losing party.
d) the winning party gives the best jobs to its supporters.

D. The winning party gives the best jobs to its supporters.

Explanation:

For an example, you could look at some of the appointments made under the current presidential administration. President Trump has given cabinet level appointments to supporters like Rick Perry and Ben Carson. He also recently appointed someone as Attorney General, Bill Bahrain, who had written a lengthy memo to the Justice Department arguing that the Special Counsel’s investigation concerning the President was going too far.

These are just examples from the current administration. Past administration have given spoils to their supporters also.

b. sec, foreign relations

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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