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The spoils system awarded official possitions to people who did not deserve them. These possitions were based on an individuals loyalty to a successful party or candidate rather than their competancy as an offical for that possition.

In the progressive era, one goal was to eliminate corruption in the government. Obviously they chose the spoils system as one of their main targets

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