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Chapter 7 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction. |
| 2. Poll Tax | Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote. |
| 3. Literacy Tests | Reading and writing test formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. |
| 4. Grandfather Clause | Law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867. |
| 5. Las Gorras Blancas | (The White Caps)group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners. |
| 6. Spoils System | Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications. |
| 7. Civil Service | Government departments and their nonelected employees. |
| 8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than a spoil system. |
| 9. Gold Standard | Policy of designing monetary units in terms of their value in gold. |
| 10. Grange | Farmers' organization formed after the Civil War. |
| 11. Populist Party | People's Party; Political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |