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Gilded Age
Term | Definition |
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Poll tax | A tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources |
Literacy test | Southern state legislature employed literacy test as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. |
Grandfather clause | A cause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices |
Spoils system | The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its officers |
Civil service | A person so employed in the public sector employed for a government department or agency. |
Gold standard | Monetary system where a countryâs currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. |
Populist party | The peopleâs party was an agrarian populist political party in the United States |
Las gorras blancas | A group active in the New Mexico territory and American southwest in the late 1880âs and early 1890âs |