<u>Answer</u>:
The Pendleton Civil Service Act intended to reform the federal hiring practices.
<u>Explanation</u>:
This act was to ensure federal employment based on merit rather than hiring based on affiliations with political parties. Following the widespread corruption and incompetence post Civil war, the public demanded civil service to be reformed.
All the citizens were to be given equal opportunity for employment for federal services regardless of their national origin, race, ethnicity, etc. This provided protection to the federal employees. It was also according to this act illegal to demote government officials for political reasons. A commission was formed to ensure the merit system.
Answer:True , this is Intuition
Explanation:Intuition refers to one's ability to have a sudden insight which is usually not based on anything that they have seen but it is actual based on what they suddenly feel based on their instict or some call it gut feeling.
Based on this intuition one may start to take certain steps even if there are no evidence to back up their intuition because a person may have a very strong faith in their intuition.
Increased standard of living
Angela Warren...look at the superscript number after the sentence that references the flying buttresses and them look below to the source that corresponds with that number (3)
