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What was the spoils system? How did Ralph Waldo Emerson impact American society?

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also known as a patronage system) is a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party

ralph waldo emerson created the transcendentalism movement that is still followed till this day its a religion and movement.

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