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Term | Definition |
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1. Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws that were brought up in the South after Reconstruction |
2. Poll Tax | amount of money to be paid before a person could vote |
3. Literacy Test | reading and writing tests that were used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
4. Grandfather Clause | laws used to disqualify African American voters by only allowing men whose fathers and gradfathers voted before 1867 to vote |
5. Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans that attempted to protect their land and way of life from enroachment by white landowners in New Mexico |
6. Spoils System | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than 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 of the federal government in an 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 created in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |