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Term | Definition |
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Jim Crowe Laws | laws for segregation after the reconstruction |
Poll Tax | an amount of money that had to be paid before you could vote |
Literacy Test | reading and writing tests used to keep African Americans from voting |
Grandfather Clause | a law that discriminated African americans from voting by allowing men to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before 1867 |
Las Gorras Blancas | a group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico attempting to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |
Spoils System | practice of the political party in power giving jobs to people who supported them rather than people who actually have qualifications |
Civil Service | government departments and their nonelected employees |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government to hire people on a merit system not a spoils system |
Gold Standard | policy of designing monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
Grange | farmers organization formed after the civil war |
Populist Party | peoples party, political party formed in 1891 to bring in a larger money supply and other economic reforms |