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chap 7 giled age
Term | Definition |
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1. jim crow laws | segregation laws enacted in the south after reconstruction. |
2.poll tax | a fee you pay in order to vote. |
3.literacy test | also known as the "understanding test" which you need to pass to vote. |
4.grandfather clause | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866. |
5.Las Gorras Blancas | one group that targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wired fences and burning houses. |
6.spoils system | practice of the political party power giving jobs and appoinments to its supporters,rather than to people based on their qualifications. |
7.civil service | government departments and their non elected employees |
8. 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 instead of the spoils system. |
9. gold standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. |
10.grange | farmers' organization formed after the civil war. |
11.populist party | "PEOPLES PARTY"political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |