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US History Ch7 vocab

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1. Jim Crow Laws segregation laws enacted in the South after Renconstruction
2. poll tax sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
3. literacy test reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting
4. grandfather clause law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867
5. Booker T. Washington most famous black leader of the late nineteenth century who believed blacks should build up their economics resources and establish their reputations as hardworking and honest citizens
6. W.E.B. Du Bois argued that blacks should demand full and imediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education
7. Ida B. Wells bought a local newspaper and wrote articles that condemned the mistreatment of blacks
8. Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps) group of Mexican American living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners
9. spoils system practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointmemts to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications
10. civil service government departments and their nonelected employees
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 policy of desgining monetary units in terms of their value in gold
13. Oliver H. Kelley organized the Grange
14. Grange farmers' organization formed after the Civil War
15. Populist Party People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms
16. William Jennings Bryan political candidate for the democrats
17. William McKinley political candidate for the republicans
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