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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |