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Vocabulary
Chapter 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws in the south after Reconstruction |
| 2. Poll Tax | sum of money that a person had to pay in order to vote |
| 3. Literacy Test | reading and writing tests in the south that prevented African Americans from voting |
| 4. Grandfather Clause | law disqualifying African American voters by allowing men to vote whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
| 5. Las Goras Blancas | the white caps group of Mexican Americans in New Mexico that wanted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white land owners |
| 6. Spoils System | practiced by the political party in power, they give jobs to only supporters of their party |
| 7. Civil Service | government departments and their nonelected employees |
| 8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government, it was biased on a merit system rather than spoils system |
| 9. Gold Standard | policy designating monetary units in term of their value in gold |
| 10. Grange | farmers organization formed after the civil war |
| 11. Populist Party | Peoples Party, focused on a larger money supply and other economic reforms in 1891 |