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STEELE-SSII CH.7 ISSUES OF THE GILDED AGE - TERMS

QuestionAnswer
laws that kept blacks and whites segregated Jim Crow Laws
a tax people had to pay so they could vote poll tax
reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting literacy tests
a law allowing a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866 grandfather clause
she led a lifelong crusade against lynching and fought for African American rights Ida B. Wells
famous black leader who thought blacks should build up their economic resources instead of trying to overturn the Jim Crow Laws Booker T. Washington
opposed Washington's willingness to accommodate southern whites; he argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education W.E.B. Du Bois
a group that targeted large ranch owners in the Southwest by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses Las Gorras Blancas
a system whereby politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers regardless of their qualifications spoils system
government workers and their nonelected employees civil service
the act that established a Civil Service Commission which wrote the civil service exam Pendleeton Civil Service Act
the use of gold as the basis of the nation's currency gold standard
Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk who organized the Grange Oliver H. Kelley
farmers' organization formed after the Civil War to provide education on new farming techniques and set railroad and grain elevator rates Grange
network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s farmers alliance
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms Populist Party
1896 democratic presidential candidate who favored poor farmers over large corporations William Jennings Bryan
1896 republican presidential candidate who allowed party regulators run his campaign for him William McKinley
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