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The passage of the Pendleton Act historically significant because it made the quality of someone's work the basis for hiring. <span>The </span>Pendleton<span> Civil Service Reform </span>Act<span> (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.</span>
<span>The effects of the first continental congress were numerous. First, the members demanded an end to the Intolerable Acts. Also, they called for the organization of militias and the printing of paper money. One more thing they did was they formed the Continental Army to be prepared for war with Britain.</span>
As Communism<span> in the Soviet Union and </span>Eastern Europe <span>began to collapse due to the revolutions taking place, pressure mounted on the </span>East<span> German authorities to open the Berlin border to the west. Thousands of Germans were escaping to the west through Hungary and the GDR was powerless to stop them.</span>
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