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Term

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1881-1885

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Party

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Republican

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Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (1883)

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a federal law established in 1883 that required that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit; provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation; made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons and prohibits soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property (Brinkley, 531)

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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

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excluded Chinese “skilled and unskilled laborers employed in mining” from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation; The few Chinese non-laborers who wished to immigrate had to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate, which tended to be difficult to prove (Brinkley, 446, 486)

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