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3. The president during the Spanish-American War
4. Democratic and Populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency
8. 1883 law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system
9. The practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications
10. An employee in the U.S. Department of Agriculture who worked to improve the lives of farmers and the agricultural industry
11. A speech by the "boy orator" which spoke for "the plain people of this country", the farmers
13. policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold
14. currency not backed by gold or silver
15. farmers’ organization formed after the Civil War

1. in an era known for its corruption, this president maintained a reputation for integrity.
2. Government departments and their non-elected employees
5. People’s Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms
6. a political party’s organization that wins voter loyalty and guarantees power to a small group of leaders, who often abuse it for their own gain
7. Former Civil War general who proved unable to keep corruption and scandal from troubling his presidential administration
12. network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s