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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1) Jim Crow Laws- | Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction. |
| 2) Poll tax- | Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote. |
| 3) Literacy test- | Reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. |
| 4) Grandfather clauses- | Law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867. |
| 5) Las Gorras Blancas- | (the White Caps) group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and ways of life from encroachment by white landowners. |
| 6) Spoils system- | Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications. |
| 7) Civil service- | Government departments and their nonelected employees. |
| 8) Pendleton Civil Service Act- | law that created a civil service system for the federal government in attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system. |
| 9) Gold standard- | Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. |
| 10) Grange- | Farmers' organization formed after the Civil War. |
| 11) Populist Party- | People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |