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Chapter 7 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |