Examples of Pendleton Act in the following topics:
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- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883.
- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883 and created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
- The 1978 Ethics in Government Act codified standards of government ethics for the executive branch.
- In 1989, the act was expanded in its applicability to the legislative and judicial branches.
- Before the Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act) was passed in 1883, civil service appointments were given based on a patronage system; that is, those who were loyal to an individual or party were rewarded with government jobs.
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- While reform legislation did not pass during Hayes's presidency, his advocacy provided, "a significant precedent as well as the political impetus for the Pendleton Act of 1883," which was signed into law by President Chester Arthur.
- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of the United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
- The act provided for the selection of government employees based on competitive exams, rather than on ties to politicians or political affiliation.
- The Pendleton Act served as a response to the massive public support of civil service reform that grew following President Garfield's assassination.
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- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of the United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
- The act provided selection of government employees based on competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation.
- The Pendleton Act served as a response to the massive public support of civil service reform that grew following President Garfield's assassination.
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- Although some U.S. civil service jobs had been classified under the Pendleton Act by previous administrations, Harrison spent much of his first months in office deciding on political appointments.
- Harrison quickly saw the enactment of the Dependent and Disability Pension Act in 1890, a cause he had championed while in Congress.
- In addition to providing pensions to disabled Civil War veterans, regardless of the cause of their disability, the act depleted some of the troublesome federal budget surplus.
- The Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibited business combinations that restricted trade, and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which required the U.S. government to mint silver were both authored by Senator John Sherman.
- The 51st Congress also was responsible for passing the Land Revision Act of 1891, which created the national forests.
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- The 1883 Civil Service Reform Act (or Pendleton Act), which placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system", permitted the professionalization and rationalization of the federal administration.
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- The end of the spoils system at the federal level eventually came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
- The separation between political activity and the civil service was made even stronger with the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibited federal employees from engaging in many political activities.
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- President Johnson's Great Society made improvements to elementary, secondary, and higher education through a series of acts.
- The Act also began a transition from federally-funded institutional assistance to individual student aid.
- The Higher Education Act of 1965 was reauthorized in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2008.
- This signing plaque rests on campus grounds of Texas State University commemorating the Higher Education Act.
- Distinguish the key features - as well as the effects - of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Facilities Act, and the Higher Education Act.
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- Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.
- Many colonists, however, viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights.
- The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
- The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.
- Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.
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- These Acts formed the basis for British overseas trade for nearly 200 years.
- Later revisions of the Act added new regulations.
- The Acts were in full force for a short time only.
- On the whole, the Navigation Acts were more or less obeyed by colonists, despite their dissatisfaction, until the Molasses and Sugar Acts.
- Describe the central stipulations of the Navigation Acts and the Acts' effects on the political and economic situation in the colonies
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- The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were a series of laws that aimed to outlaw speech that was critical of the government.
- The Naturalization Act repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1795 and extended the duration of residence required for aliens to become citizens of the United States from five years to fourteen years.
- Enacted July 6, 1798, and providing no expiration provision, the act remains intact today as Title 50 of U.S.
- The most controversial arrest made under the Alien and Sedition Acts was of a member of Congress.
- While the Alien and Sedition Acts were left largely unenforced after 1800, the Alien Act was later used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Supreme Court was grappling with the constitutionality of the Sedition Acts as late as the 1960s.