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Chaper 7 pg. 182
Issues of the Glided Age 1877-1900.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | Kept blacks and whites segregated. |
| Poll Tax | Voters to pay a tax to vote. |
| Literacy Test | States required voters to pass. |
| Grandfather Clause | A person to vote as long as ancestors had voted prior to 1866. |
| Brooker T. Washington | The most famous black leader during the nineteenth century. |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | Earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Univrsity in 1896, critized Washington's willingness to accommodate Southern whites. |
| Ida B. Wells | African American women who fought for justice. |
| Las Gorras Blancas | Targeted a property of large ranch owners buy cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses. |
| Spoils System | Politicians awarded gov't jobs to loyal party workers, with little regard for their qualifications. |
| Civil Service | A system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch. |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | The Act established a civil service commission that wrote a civil service exam. |
| Gold Standard | The gov't used gold for the basis of the nation's currency. |
| Oliver H. Kelley | A Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and a gov't clerk. |
| Grange | Provided education on new farming techniques and calling regulations of railroad and grain elevator rates. |
| Populist Party | Built a political party for the politicians. |
| William Jennings Bryan | A presidential candidate put the election for the Populist on an entirely different plane, leading people to believe they could win the White House that year. |
| William McKinley | A Republician candidate accumulated approximately $15 million, 30 times the amount Bryan had, and allowed party regulators to do the campaining for him. |