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US History Chapter 7
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction | Jim Crow Laws |
| Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote | Poll tax |
| Reading and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting | Literacy tests |
| Law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 | Grandfather clause |
| Group of Mexican Americans living in new Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from enencroachment by white landowners | Las Gorras Blancas |
| Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications | Spoils system |
| Government departments and their no elected employees | Civil service |
| Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than a spoils system | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold | Gold standard |
| Farmers' organization formed after the Civil War | Grange |
| People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms | Populist Party |