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Chapter 7 Vocab list
Chapter 7 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow laws | were state and local laws in the United States |
| poll tax | Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
| literacy test | reading and writing tests formerly used in some souther states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| grandfather clause | law to disqualify African american voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
| booker t. washington | The most famous black leader during the late nineteenth century |
| W.E.D Du bois | criticized Washington's willingness to accommodate southern whites |
| ida B. wells | African american women who fought for justice |
| las gorras blancas | group of Mexican Americans living in new mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |
| spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| civil service | government departments and their non selected employees |
| Pendleton civil service act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employee on a merit system rather than on a spoils system |
| gold standard | policy of designating monastery unites in terms of their value in gold |
| oliver h. kelley | a Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk organized the grange |
| grange | farmers' organization 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 |
| William Jennings Bryan | was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries |
| William McKinley | was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to that office |