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Term | Definition |
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Poll tax | Sum of money to be paid before a person can vote |
Literacy tests | 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 father's and grandfather's voted before |
Spoils system | Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to it's supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
Civil service | Government departments and their nonelected employees |
Gold standard | Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
Populist party | People's party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
Las gorras 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 |