<span>Garfield’s
assassination led to the reform of the Civil Service. This is something that he wanted to do as
President and it was done posthumously in his honor. This way positions were awarded through a
person’s record rather than his political association.</span>
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
