Politics of the Gilded Age

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Across
  1. 3. the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
  2. 6. a stalwart for vice president
  3. 10. Republicans nominated, a halfbreed, for president
  4. 11. after candidates won the election and took office, they fired all of the people who worked for the government, and hired their political supporters
Down
  1. 1. marked the begi
  2. 2. tried to end patronage by firing officials who had been given jobs because of their support
  3. 4. some jobs be filled by competitive written exams, rather than by patronage
  4. 5. who supported patronage
  5. 7. who backed some reform
  6. 8. Garfields assassination turned people the spoils system
  7. 9. was assassinated by a man angry that e had not been given a government job