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Chapter 7
Term | Definition |
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Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws enacted in the south after Reconstruction |
Poll Tax | required voters to pay a tax to vote |
Literacy Test | reading and writing test formerly used in some southern state to prevent African American from voting |
Grandfather Clause | law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
Las Gorras Blances | targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses |
Spoils System | practice of political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather then to people based on their qualifications |
Civil Service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
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 rather than on a spoils systems |
Gold Standard | Policy of designating 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 advocate a larger money supply and other economic reformers |