click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |