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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Jim Crow laws | Law that kept blacks and whites separated. |
Poll Tax | A tax that had to be paid in order to vote. |
Literacy Test | A reading and writing test that prevented the African Americans the right to vote. |
Grandfather Clause. | A law by disqualifying Africans to vote by allowing to vote only men whose fathers or grandfathers who voted before 1867 |
Las Gorras Blancas | A group of Mexicans living in New Mexico who tried to protect their land from the whites. |
Spoils system | A practice of political party giving public office to its supporters. |
Civil Service | Government departments and nonelected employees. |
Pendleton Service Act | attempted to hire employees on a merit system rather than a soils system. |
Gold Standard | A policy stating to use gold as the basis of the nation's currency. |
Grange | A farmer's organization formed after the Civil War. |
Populist Party | A party created to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |