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>
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The result of the Japanese aggression during the 1930s include:
- Japan conquering large amounts of land from China, as well as large amounts of islands in the Pacific
- Japanese imperialism and rule of conquered lands, which they forced the people (natives) living there to force labor.
- continue Japanese expansion made them attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, resulting in the US entry of world war II
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The reasons these new immigrants made the journey to America differed little from those of their predecessors. Escaping religious, racial, and political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine still pushed many immigrants out of their homelands. Many were pulled here by contract labor agreements offered by recruiting agents, known as padrones to Italian and Greek laborers. Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Bohemians, and Italians flocked to the coal mines or steel mills, Greeks preferred the textile mills, Russian and Polish Jews worked the needle trades or pushcart markets of New York. Railroad companies advertised the availability of free or cheap farmland overseas in pamphlets distributed in many languages, bringing a handful of agricultural workers to western farmlands. But the vast majority of immigrants crowded into the growing cities, searching for their chance to make a better life for themselves.</span>
C. Societies in New Guinea developed agriculture; those in Australia didn't.