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This legislation affected how federal employees were hired. The law now required government jobs to be — based on the political party affiliation of the applicant determined by a merit system based on civil service examinations based on the approval of lawmakers set aside for business executives of large corporations

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The correct answer is "by a merit system based on civil service examinations."

This legislation affected how federal employees were hired. The law now required government jobs to be based on a merit system based on civil service examinations.

We are talking about the legislation called the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act that was signed into law on January 16, 1883, in times of United States President Chester A. Arthur. It was a very important piece of legislation because it pretended to change how people or politicians aspired to political jobs in the government of the United States. The legislation statted that these positions in the federal government were going to be awarded taking into consideration the merit and experience of the people, not by political favors, friendship, or any kind of patronage.

Answer: A, determined by a merit system based in civil service examinations

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That’s what would make it fair, it they didn’t want people to be hired based off of Political party, beliefs, friendships etc, the best way to prove they deserve government jobs is though a merit system

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