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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | kept blacks and whites segregated or apart |
| Poll tax | required voters to pay a tax to vote |
| Literacy tests | to test if you can read and write |
| grandfather clauses | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had not vote prior to 1866 |
| Spoils System | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointmentsto its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| Civil Service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | 1883 Established a Civil Service Commission which wrote a civil service exam |
| Gold Standard | Policy of designating monetary units in term of their value of gold |
| Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
| Las Gorras Blancas | a group that targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire fences and burning houses |
| Populist Party | Peoples Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other enconomic reforms |