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Chapter 7 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | A law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867. |
| Las Gorras Blancas | A group of of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners. |
| spoils system | Pratice 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 | A law that created a civil service system for the federal goverment in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system. |
| gold standard | A policy of designating monetary units n terms of their value in gold. |
| Grange | A farmers' organization that formed after the civil war. |
| Populist Party | A political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |