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what was the pendleton civil service act intended to reform?

a. veterans' benefits

b. federal hiring practices

c. state spending policies

d. military recruitment policies

use the political cartoon to answer the question.

"stop thief! "

based on this thomas nast cartoon of boss tweed and his henchmen running away from the new york city treasury, what is boss tweed doing to the people of new york?
a. them save money

b. protecting their money

c. stealing their money

d. wasting their money

B,C

Explanation:

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.