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us historych7
Question | Answer |
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Jim Crow laws | kept blacks and whites apart |
poll tax | fee to vote |
Literacy test | people had to pass this to vote |
grandfather clause | if someone's grandfather could vote, then so could they |
spoils system | politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard for their qualifications |
civil service | federal jobs in the executive branch |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | wrote a civil service exam |
gold standard | using gold for the basis of the nations currency |
grange | farming schools |
populist party | People's party |