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Chapter 7
Term | Definition |
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1. Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws in the south after Reconstruction |
2. Poll Tax | Money that had to be paid to vote |
3. Literacy Test | Reading and writing tests used to prevent African-Americans from voting |
4. Grandfather Clause | law that states you can only vote if your fathers and grandfathers did before 1867 |
5. Las Goras Blancas | Group of Mexicans that live in New Mexico who try and protect themselves from the whites |
6. Spoils System | political parties giving jobs to its supporters |
7. Civil Service | Government departments and their employees |
8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that tried to hire government employes on a merit system rather than the spoils system |
9. Gold Standard | designating units in tersm of their weight in gold |
10. Grange | Farmers organization formed after the Civil war |
11. Populist Party | Political Party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply |