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- The Gilden Age
- Between the 1865 and 1890's
- modern industrial economy
- an area of reform
- The Civil Service Act- made people take a quiz to see if they were loyal and they only did this for a couple of government jobs
- The Gilded Age
- The kick back system
- a person finds work on a construction project for the city
- PM asksthe worker to bill city for more than actual cost of materials and labor
- worker then "kicked back" a part of earnings to machine
- Are illegal payments for their services, enriched the political machines- and inividual politicians
- Book
- Partronage
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