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Chap 7 Gilded Age
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Question | Answer |
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Jim Crow laws | segregation laws inacted in the South |
poll tax | sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
literacy test | reading and writing tests used to prevent African Americans in some Southern states from voting |
grandfather clause | law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
Booker T. Washington | Argued that that blacks need to build up their economic resources and establish their reputations as hardworking citizens |
W.E.B. Du Bois | disagreed with Washington and thought that blacks should demand full and immdiate equality |
Ida B. Wells | Bought a newspaper and called it "Free Speech". It was about the mistreatment of blacks. |
Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans that fought to maintain their rights |
spoils system | politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers |
civil service | system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal gov. in an attemptto hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system |
gold standard | government would use gold as the basis of the nation's currency |
Oliver H. Kelley | a minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and gov. clerk. |
Grange | farmers' organization formed after the civil war |
Populist party | peoples' party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply & other economic reforms |
William Jennings Bryan | nominated as democratic presidential candidate |
William McKinley | the republican candidate |