shakman decrees was the congressional act passed to end the abuses of the spoils system.
shakman decrees was the congressional act passed to end the abuses of the spoils system.
which congressional act was passed to end the abuses of the spoils system?
shakman decrees
the term was used particularly in politics of the united states, where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the pendleton act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement. thereafter the spoils system was largely replaced by a nonpartisan merit at the federal level of the united states.
spoils system
jackson systematically used the federal patronage system, what was called the "spoils system". jackson not only rewarded past supporters; he promised future jobs if local and state politicians joined his team. as syrett explains: when jackson became president, he implemented the theory of rotation in office, declaring it "a leading principle in the republican creed." he believed that rotation in office would prevent the development of a corrupt civil service. on the other hand, jackson's supporters wanted to use the civil service to reward party loyalists to make the party stronger. in practice, this meant replacing civil servants with friends or party loyalists into those offices. the spoils system did not originate with jackson. it originated under thomas jefferson when he removed federalist office-holders after becoming president. also, jackson did not out the entire civil service. at the end of his term, jackson had only dismissed less than twenty percent of the original civil service. while jackson did not start the spoils system, he did encourage its growth and it became a central feature of the second party system, as well as the third party system, until it ended in the 1890s. as one historian explains:
second party system