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Ch. 7
Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow laws | segregation laws created in the South after Reconstruction |
| 2. poll tax | required voter to pay a tax to vote |
| 3. literacy test | reading and writing tested used in the southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| 4. grandfather clause | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866 |
| 5. spoils system | helped make parties so powerful |
| 6. civil service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
| 7. Pendleton Civil Service Act | federal government could hire employees on a merit system instead of on the spoils system |
| 8. gold standard | government would use the gold as the basic of the nation's currency |
| 9. Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
| 10. Populist Party | People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| 11. Las Gorras Blancas | targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting hole in barbed-wire fences and burning houses |