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Chapter 7 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Jim Crow Laws | Segregation Laws after reconstruction, that kept whites and blacks apart. |
| 2.Poll Tax | Sum of money that had to be paid before somone could vote. |
| 3.Literacy Test | Reading and Writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. |
| 4.Grandfather Clause | Law to disqualify African Americans voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and gradnfathers voted before 1867. |
| 5.Spoils System | Practice in political party in power is giving jobs and appointments to is suporters, rather than poeple based on qualifications.( A.J.) |
| 6.Civil Service | Goverment departments and their nonelected employees. |
| 7.Pendleton Civil Service | 1883, Law that created a civil service system for a federal goverment in an attempt to hire emplopyes on a merit system rather than on the spoils system. |
| 8.Gold Standerd | Policy of designating montetary units in terms of value in gold. |
| 9.Grange | Farmers organization formed after the civil war. |
| 10.Populist Party | Peoples Party, political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply formed and other economic reforms. |