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Chapter 7 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws enacted in the south after reconstruction |
| Poll Tax | sum of money to be paid before a person could vote |
| Literacy Test | reading and writing test formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| Grandfather Clause | law to disqualify african american voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1876 |
| Spoils System | Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| Civil Service | government departments and their non-elected employees |
| 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 on a spoil system |
| Gold Standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
| Grange | farmers organization formed after the civil war |
| Populist Party | peoples party |
| Las Gorras Blancas | group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners |