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The reformers for the elimination of the patronage wanted civil service jobs to be filled by putting people who were truly qualified to fill the positions. The positions were filled through nepotism which was bad and they wanted a change.
They believed the positions should be based on merit and best hands should be given the posts. They didn’t want it to about any political affiliation or recommendation.
The answer to your question is b
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Homestead Strike, also called Homestead riot, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The strike pitted the company’s management (which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American industrialist Henry Clay Frick), the strikebreakers (replacement workers) who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, who worked for the company. A gun battle resulted in which a number of Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed and many were injured.
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