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Chapter 7 vocab 9/2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | segragation law enacted in the south after reconstruction |
| poll tax | sum of money to be paid before a person can vote |
| literacy test | reading and writing tests used in southern states to prevent blacks from voting |
| grandfather clause | law to disqualify blacks votes by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
| booker t. washington | the most famous black leader during 19th century |
| W.E.B Du bois | earned his phd from harvard univ. |
| Ida B. Wells | black women who fought for justice |
| Las gorras blancas | target the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire and burning houses |
| spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to his supporters |
| civil service | gov. departments and their nonelected employs |
| pendleton civil service act | law that created a civil service system for the federal gov. in an attempt to hire employs on a merit system rather than a spoils system |
| Gold standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
| oliver h. kelley | a minnesota farmer, business man, journalist, and gov. clerk |
| grange | farmers organized formed after the civil war |
| populist party | people's party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| willium jennings bryan | presidential candidate put the election for the populist on an entirely different plan |
| william mckinley | republican candidate of election 1896 |
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