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Spoils System

The Oxford Companion to United States History | 2001 | | Â© The Oxford Companion to United States History 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Spoils System. See Jacksonian Era; Civil Service Reform.

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