The correct answer is C
"To control government by getting its candidates elected."
Correct answer: C. spoils system
Explanation: During the 1800s, America's Civil System was dominated by a spoils system where the party in power would award civil service jobs as a reward. Civil Service reform worked to make civil service jobs based on merit.
The correct answer is: B) They are apathetic, or lack interest.
Even when every American has the right to vote, many decide not to. In the 2016 Presidential elections, only 6 out of 10 Americans casted their votes.
The main reason for this is that many US citizens believe that either their voice does not matter, that their vote wouldn't really change anything (as they think that bad politicians will always make their way to the Office) or that the results of the Elections won't make any differences in their current lives.
<span>The growth of the service economy in the 1990's caused an increase in American blue-collar jobs, such as coal mining and steel making</span>
