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CHAPTER 7 U.S.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | Kept blacks and white segregated, or apart. |
| 2. poll tax | Required voters to pay tax when voting. |
| 3. literacy test | Reading/writing test that kept blacks from voting. (Used more in southern states.) |
| 4. grandfather clause | Allowed someone to vote as long as his ancestor voted in 1866. |
| 5. Booker T. Washington | He wanted blacks to adapt to the segregated world. |
| 6. W.E.B Du Bois | He wanted black to fight against the Jim Crow laws. |
| 7. Ida B. Wells | Attacked the practice of lynching. |
| 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 awarded loyal party workers government jobs. |
| 10. civil service | System that included federal jobs in the executive branch. |
| 11. Pendleton Civil Service Act | Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system. |
| 12. gold standard | That government would use gold as the basis of the nation's currency. |
| 13. Oliver H. Kelley | A Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk. |
| 14. Grange | Included providing education on a new farming techniques. |
| 15. Populist Party | People who sought to build a new political party. |
| 16. William Jennings Bryan | Democratic presidential candidate. |
| 17. William McKinley | Republican presidential candidate. |