<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.
I’m not understanding this
Answer:
Negativity bias
Explanation:
Negativity bias is a term in socio-psychology, which describes the tendency of an individual to give a negative interpretation of ambiguous stimuli or events.
Often referred to as Postitve-Negative Asymmetry or Negativity Effect, it means, as human, we often feel that things of rebuke or negative nature has a greater effect than on ones perception-making processes than neutral or positive things
Hence, in this case, the right answer is NEGATIVITY BIAS.
It helped increase population. Before agriculture, people roamed around and
gathered what they could to survive.
Later on, they learned how to grow their plants and raise their own
livestock, they decided to settle down.
This led to the growth of communities and the start of civilization.
