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Ch. 7 Vocabulary
Mrs. Hunt U.S. History Ch. 7 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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1.) Jim Crow's Law | segregation laws enacted in the south after the Reconstruction Era |
2.) Poll Tax | money to be paid before someone voted |
3.) Literacy Test | reading and writing tests in southern states to keep African Americans from voting |
4.) Grandfather Clause | a law which only allowed African American men vote whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
5.) Las Goras Blancas | Mexican Americans in New Mexico who tried to protect their land by white landowners |
6.) Spoils System | giving jobs to people who supported the system rather than to the qualified people |
7.) Civil Service | non-elected employees and departments of the government |
8.) Pendelton Civil Service Act | law that created a system in an attempt to hire employees based on the merit system as opposed to the spoils system |
9.) Gold Standard | designating monetary units in terms of their gold values |
10.) Grange | organization formed by farmers after the Civil War |
11.) Populist Party | people's party; party formed to advocate a larger money supply and other reforms in 1891 |