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Multiple Choice

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-Effort in the 1880s to end the spoils system and reduce government corruption. New legislation awarded government jobs under a merit system that required examinations for office and made it impossible to remove jobholders for political reasons.

A) civil service reform
B) finance capitalism
C) free silver
D) Gilded Age
E) gospel of wealth
F) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
G) Jim Crow
H) trust
I) Sherman Antitrust Act
J) social Darwinism
K) spoils system
L) Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)