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In the politics of the United States, a spoil system is a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party-as opposed to a merit system, where offices are awarded on the basis of some measure of merit, independent of political activity.
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The main reason for other countries' growing need for American colonial goods was that "<span>American raw materials were of better quality than those grown elsewhere", which was especially true for the cotton and tobacco industries. </span>
The life expectancy went down as did the conditions in the cities it was alot easier to get sick and alot more dirty and not clean (not sure)
