<P> The term was used particularly in politics of the United States , where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement . Thereafter the spoils system was largely replaced by a nonpartisan merit at the federal level of the United States . </P>
<P> The term was used particularly in politics of the United States , where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement . Thereafter the spoils system was largely replaced by a nonpartisan merit at the federal level of the United States . </P>
which congressional act was passed to end the abuses of the spoils system
which congressional act was passed to end the abuses of the spoils system
the Pendleton Act
the Pendleton Act