The Spoils System is a practice
where the victorious party rewards its supporters with government jobs or
appointing them to government positions. It was the ‘norm’ from the Presidency
of Andrew Jackson right up to the end of President’s Garfield’s administration.
Well, President Garfield was killed by a man named Charles J. Guiteau, a
mentally-ill man who believed he had helped the president win the election and
so expected to be rewarded. Guiteau was not given a gov’t post and so plotted
to kill the president and was successful. The assassination helped usher Civil
Service Reform in the country.
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The sepoy revolt/mutiny failed because rebel sepoys had simply declared a Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah II as the Emperor of India and the symbol of the revolt. Besides this fact though, there were multiple leaders at different storm centres of the revolt and each one of them were all fighting against the British for their own reasons and not one single cause.
Explanation:
Answer:
A. Tobacco growing
Answer:
Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War.
