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Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |