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Chaper 7 pg. 182
Issues of the Glided Age 1877-1900.
Question | Answer |
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Jim Crow Laws | Kept blacks and whites segregated. |
Poll Tax | Voters to pay a tax to vote. |
Literacy Test | States required voters to pass. |
Grandfather Clause | A person to vote as long as ancestors had voted prior to 1866. |
Brooker T. Washington | The most famous black leader during the nineteenth century. |
W.E.B. Du Bois | Earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Univrsity in 1896, critized Washington's willingness to accommodate Southern whites. |
Ida B. Wells | African American women who fought for justice. |
Las Gorras Blancas | Targeted a property of large ranch owners buy cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses. |
Spoils System | Politicians awarded gov't jobs to loyal party workers, with little regard for their qualifications. |
Civil Service | A system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch. |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | The Act established a civil service commission that wrote a civil service exam. |
Gold Standard | The gov't used gold for the basis of the nation's currency. |
Oliver H. Kelley | A Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and a gov't clerk. |
Grange | Provided education on new farming techniques and calling regulations of railroad and grain elevator rates. |
Populist Party | Built a political party for the politicians. |
William Jennings Bryan | A presidential candidate put the election for the Populist on an entirely different plane, leading people to believe they could win the White House that year. |
William McKinley | A Republician candidate accumulated approximately $15 million, 30 times the amount Bryan had, and allowed party regulators to do the campaining for him. |