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Chapter 7 1.2.3.4
Chapter 7 Vocab
Word | Defination | Stuff |
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Poll Tax | Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote. | AustinH16 |
Literacy Test | Reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. | austino11 |
Grandfather Clause | Law to disqualify African American Voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867. | |
Spoils System | Practice 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 non selected employees. | |
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. | |
Gold Standard | Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. | |
Grange | Farmers' organization formed after the Civil War. | |
Populist Party | Peoples Party;political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. | |
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 land owners. | |
Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction. |