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US Studies
Exam Review Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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poll Tax | A special fee that must be paid before a person can vote |
grandfather clause | Passage in a law that exempts a group of people from obeying the law if they had met certain conditions before the law was passed |
lynching | Murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial |
social darwinism | Derived from Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the belief that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people’s pursuit of success. |
Jim Crow laws | Statutes, beginning in the 1890’s, that required segregation of public service by race |
muckrakers | nvestigative reporters who exposed serious abuses in society. (politics, business, and society) |
17th Amendment | Direct elections of senators |