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chapter 7 vocab
chpt 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | kept blacks and whites segregrated |
| 2. poll tax | required voters to pay a tax to vote |
| 3. literacy tests | a test voters were required to pass |
| 4. grandfather clauses | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866 |
| 5. Las Gorras Blancas | targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses |
| 6. spoils system | polititionsawarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard for their qualifications |
| 7. civil services | a sytem that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
| 8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | established Civil Service Comission which wrote a civil service exam |
| 9. gold standard | government would would use gold as the basis of the nation's currency |
| 10. Grange | provided education on new farming techniques and calle dfor the regulation of the railroad and grain elevator rates |
| 11. populist party | the populists sought to build a new poilical party from the grass roots up |
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