... seem desperate and dejected, since his plans worsened the economic crisis, while FDR's plans benefited the common man and improved the economy. Hoover claims that the New Deal was a "spoils system [and] emotional economics" ("Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty," (1936), In Foner. 170). In this case, Hoover was incorrect, as those descriptions more accurately describe ... Hoover's plans. A spoils system is when politicians give favors to those who can benefit them. Herbert Hoover disregarded the impoverished Americans, and favored the rich. His favoring the rich, also tie back to...

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... corruption within government ranks was the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1882) which established a Civil Service Commission to oversee exams for admittance to government positions, in an attempt to dismantle the spoils system. There were also judicial advancements in the regulation of railroads. In Munn v. Illinois, the Supreme Court prohibited pools and rates discrimination. It also created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to ... ...

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