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Chapter 7
Term | Definition |
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Jim Crow Laws | it kept blacks and whites seperated |
poll tax | which required voters to pay a tax to vote |
literacy test | reading and writing test for African Americans |
grandfather claus | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866 |
Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land |
spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters |
civil service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
Pendleton Civil Act | established a Civil Service Commission which wrote a civil service exam |
gold standard | the government would use gold as the basis of the nations currency |
Grange | farmers organization formed after the Civil War |
Populist Party | peoples party |