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Chap 7 Gilded Age

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Jim Crow laws segregation laws inacted in the South
poll tax sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
literacy test reading and writing tests used to prevent African Americans in some Southern states from voting
grandfather clause law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867
Booker T. Washington Argued that that blacks need to build up their economic resources and establish their reputations as hardworking citizens
W.E.B. Du Bois disagreed with Washington and thought that blacks should demand full and immdiate equality
Ida B. Wells Bought a newspaper and called it "Free Speech". It was about the mistreatment of blacks.
Las Gorras Blancas group of Mexican Americans that fought to maintain their rights
spoils system politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers
civil service system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch
Pendleton Civil Service Act law that created a civil service system for the federal gov. in an attemptto hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system
gold standard government would use gold as the basis of the nation's currency
Oliver H. Kelley a minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and gov. clerk.
Grange farmers' organization formed after the civil war
Populist party peoples' party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply & other economic reforms
William Jennings Bryan nominated as democratic presidential candidate
William McKinley the republican candidate
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