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Chapter 7 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws enacted in the south after reconstruction |
| poll tax | sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
| literacy test | reading and writing test used in the southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| grandfather clause | law to disqualify African Americans voters by allowing to vote only men whose father and grandfather voted before 1867 |
| Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land from white landowners |
| spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters |
| civil service | goverenment departments and their nonelected employees |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | law created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system |
| gold standard | policy of designating units in terms of their value in gold |
| Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
| Populist Party | political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |