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chapter 7 vocab
chapter 7 vocab ( 17 words)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow law | segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction |
| 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 American from voting |
| 4. grandfather clause | law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to voted before 1867 |
| 5. Booker T. Washington | black leader during the late 19th century; slave in 1856 |
| 6. W.E.B Du Bois | a native of Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
| 7. Ida B. Wells | African American woman who fought for justice |
| 8. Las Gorras Blancas | (the white caps) group of Mexican American living in New Mexico who attempted their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |
| 9. spoils system | practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| 10. civil service | government department and their non-election employees |
| 11. Pendleton Civil Services 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 spoil system |
| 12.gold standard | policy of designating monetary units on terms of their value in gold |
| 13. Oliver H. Kelley | a Minnesota farmers, businessman, journalist, and government clerk |
| 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. Williams Jennings Bryan | presidential candidate that put the election for the Populist on an entirely different plane |
| 17. William McKinley | republican candidate, accumulated approximately 15 million $, 39 times the amount Bryan had ,and allowed party regulars to do campaigning for him |