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Chapter 7 vocab His
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws |
| Poll Tax | required voters to pay a tax to vote |
| Literacy Test | an examination to determine if a person meets the literacy requirements to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | one may vote if their ancestors voted in 1866 |
| Booker T. Washington | black leader that wanted blacks to accommodate southern whites |
| W.E.B Du Bois | thought blacks should demand immediate equality |
| Ida B. Wells | bought a newspaper and renamed it "Free Speech" |
| Las Gorras Blancas | targeted the property of large ranch owners |
| 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 | established a Civil Service Commission, which wrote a civil service exam |
| Gold Standart | government would use you gold as the bases of the nations currency |
| Grange | organizations that attracted millions of people wanted to improve educations a new farming techniques |
| Oliver H. Kelley | Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist and government clerk |
| Populist Party | People“s party, that wanted to build a new political party |
| William Jennings Bryan | nominated as the presidental candidate by the democratic party |
| William Mckinley | Republican candidate |