Explain the importance of the spoils system in gilded age politics and how the garfield assassination led to the beginning of the civil service

The Spoils System is a practice where the victorious party rewards its supporters with government jobs or appointing them to government positions. It was the ‘norm’ from the Presidency of Andrew Jackson right up to the end of President’s Garfield’s administration. Well, President Garfield was killed by a man named Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally-ill man who believed he had helped the president win the election and so expected to be rewarded. Guiteau was not given a gov’t post and so plotted to kill the president and was successful. The assassination helped usher Civil Service Reform in the country.

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939

the correct answer is d

a conference committee is a group of congress representatives appointed by the senate and the house to reach an agreement over a bill that had different versions in each chamber. this is due to the fact that, to pass a law. both the house and the senate must agree on the exact same content and wording of the bill to present it to the president.