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Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898
Topic 6.13
How might the Gilded Age have evolved differently had the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act not been enacted in 1883?
Industrialization may have slowed down due to limited governmental efficiencies.
Labor unions might not have emerged until much later.
Greater corruption could have prevailed due to lack of merit-based positions.
The South might have become equally industrialized as the North.
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