Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883. The Pendleton Act provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams.
The Atlantic Charter was prepared during the WWII. It was a step forward to global peace. Let us check the answers. Banning nuclear research would not make sense since the Allies were actively working on that technique and only few could understand the immense power of that new weapon. Shutting down national armies is a dream that cannot be achieved in the near future and the Allies did not call for that, especially during times of war. They also did not refer to dictatorships; if the regime was respecting the right of its neighbot countries then it was not affected by this charter. The Allies decided to adopt the principle of disarming aggressive nations.
The answer is C. Dry communities
Independent states unified under a weak central government would generally be part of a "confederate government," but of course the specific weakness of the central government can vary greatly.
