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U.S History Ch. 7 Vocab

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1. Jim Crow Laws Kept blacks and whites segregated.
2. poll tax Required voters to pay a tax to vote.
3. literacy tests Reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting.
4. grandfather clauses Allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted before 1866.
5. Booker T. Washington Most famous black leader during late 19th century.
6. W.E.B. Du Bois Native of Great Barrington, Mass. who earned his Ph.D from Harvard. Critisized Washington's willingness to accommodate southern whites.
7. Ida B. Wells African American woman who fought for justice.
8. Las Gorras Blancas Targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses.
9. spoils system Politicians gave government jobs to loyal party workers, not caring about their qualifications.
10. civil service Includes federal jobs in the executive branch.
11. Pendleton Civil Service Act Established a Civil Service Commission, people who wanted to work for the gov't had to take the exam and doing well on it.
12. gold standard Government would use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
13. Oliver H. Kelley Organized the Grange to provide education on new farming techniques.
14. Grange Provided education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates.
15. Populist Party People's Party, wanted to build a new political party from the grass roots up.
16. William Jennings Bryan Presidential candidate made the Populists believe they could win the White House that year.
17. William McKinley Republican candidate.
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