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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction |
Poll Tax | Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
Literacy Test | Reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
Grandfather Clause | Law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
Las Goras Blancas (the White Caps) | Group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |
Spoils System | Practice of the political party in power of giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
Civil Service | Government departments and their non-elected employees |
Pendleton Civil Service Act | Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on spoils system |
Gold Standard | Policy of designating monetary units in their terms of their value in gold |
Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
Populist Party | People's party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |