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Book
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner publish The Gilded Age -
Congress passes Pendleton Service Act
•government jobs are to be awarded on the basis of merit
•made it illegal to fire or demote an employee for political reasons -
Populist Party emerges out of Farmers’ Alliance movement
Farmers’ Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and ’80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
