What was the pendleton civil act intended to reform?
a) veteran’s benefits
b) federal hiring practices
c) state spending policies
d) military recruitment policies

B) Federal hiring practices

The act was to reform the way the government hires workers, instead of being hired by having ties to politicians, they take competitive exams

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answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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