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Teaching Future Historians: Civil Service Reform: Senate Debates

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Here is a terrific lesson plan that involves all learners in examining the reasons Senators had for and against civil service reform following the assassination President Garfield. All the source materials are available for the lesson as is a day-by-day procedure.

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civil service, civil service reform, patronage, spoils system, pendleton act, senate debate on civil service reform, teaching future historians: civil service reform: senate debates, assassination of james garfield
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)