The best answer is, newspaper articles.
<span>President
William McKinley served as the 25th President of the United States and during
his two terms in office, he and his administration used national newspapers to
read the public's overall opinion regarding policies and actions of the
President. Though President McKinley was received well by the American people
he was assassinated by an anarchist and succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. </span>
In politics, the patronage system which was based around the spoils of war mentality caused problems of having unqualified and corrupt officials in government positions because they would get there only because they were close to the ruling party or the ruler. This was common before the merit system.
The school of 18 century is called Grammar School.
A third party is a part that doesn’t fit the criteria of belonging to the two dominant parties of the US. In simple terms, it is any party that isn’t the two dominant parties (republican and democratic).
