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History Vocab Ch. 4
Term | Definition |
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Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws enacted in the South after reconstruction |
Poll Tax | sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
Literacy Test | reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
Grandfather Clause | law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before |
Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |
Spoils System | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
Civil Service | Government departments and their nonelected employees |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than a spoil system |
Gold Standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their values in gold |
Grange | farmers organization formed after the civil war |
Populist Party | peoples party political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |