The passage of the Pendleton Act historically significant because it made the quality of someone's work the basis for hiring. <span>The </span>Pendleton<span> Civil Service Reform </span>Act<span> (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.</span>
Economically disadvantaged White people did not feel the same as enslaved people because they felt enslaved people were beneath them.
<h3>What was the attitude of poor White people to slavery?</h3>
Even though owning enslaved people was something that was limited to rich Whites, poor Whites in the South supported the practice.
This was as a result of the need for the Poor Whites to always feel in some sort of position of power over African Americans even if their lives weren't much better.
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Scientific racism<span> (sometimes </span>race biology<span> or </span>racial biology<span> or </span>pseudoscientific racism<span>) is the </span>pseudoscientific<span> study of techniques and hypotheses attempts to reveal the biological differences between races which can be used to support or justify belief in </span>racism<span>, racial inferiority, or </span>racial superiority;<span> alternatively, it is the practice of classifying</span><span> individuals of different </span>phenotypes<span> or </span>genotype<span> into discrete </span>races. Historically it received credence in the scientific community, but is no longer considered scientific.
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