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Chapter> 7
Chapter 7: Issues of the Gilded Age
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow laws | segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction |
| 2. poll tax | sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
| 3. literacy test | reading and writing test formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| 4. grandfather clause | law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
| 5. 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 |
| 6. spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| 7. civil service | government departments and their nonelected employees |
| 8. 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 on a spoils system |
| 9. gold standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
| 10. Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
| 11. Populist Party | People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
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