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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Chapter 7 Vocabulary- 17 words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | laws that kept blacks and whited segregated |
| 2. poll tax | taxes voters had to pay to vote |
| 3. literacy test | a test given to African Americans to test check their understanding and knowledge |
| 4. grandfather clause | allowed voters to vote as long as their ancestors had voted prior to 1866 |
| 5. Booker T. Washington | argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation, meaning they shouldn't focus their energies on seeking to overturn Jim Crow |
| 6. W.E.B. Du Bois | argues that blacks should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education |
| 7. Ida B. Wells | an African American school teacher who fought for justice |
| 8. Las Gorras Blancas | targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire fences and burning houses |
| 9. spoils system | politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard to their qualifications |
| 10. civil service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
| 11. Pendleton Civil Service Act | established a Civil Service Commission which wrote a civil service exam |
| 12. gold standard | the government would use gold as a basis of the nation's currency |
| 13. Oliver H. Kelley | a Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk |
| 14. Grange | provided education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates |
| 15. Populist Party | People's Party- sought to build a new political party from the grass roots up |
| 16. William Jennings Bryan | the Democratic candidate put the election for the Populists on an entirely different plane, leading some to believe they could win the white House that year |
| 17. William McKinley | the Republican candidate accumulated approximately $15 million, 30 times more than Bryan had and allowed party regulars to do the campaigning for him |