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Chapter 7 Guilded
Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws |
| 2. Poll tax | required voters to pay a tax to vote |
| 3. literacy test | reading and writing tests formed to prevent African Americans from voting |
| 4. grandfather clause | allowed a person to vote as long as their grandfather had voted prior to 1866 |
| 5. Las Gorras Blancas | group that targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire fences and burned houses |
| 6. spoils system | practice in giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than people based on their qualifications |
| 7. civil sevice | system that includes federal service jobs in the executive branch |
| 8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system |
| 9. gold standard | policy of designing monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
| 10. Grange | farmers organization formed after the war |
| 11. Populist party | political party formed to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |