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Chapter 7

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Jim Crow Laws   segregation laws enacted in the south after Reconstruction  
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Poll Tax   required voters to pay a tax to vote  
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Literacy Test   reading and writing test formerly used in some southern state to prevent African American from voting  
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Grandfather Clause   law to disqualify African American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867  
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Las Gorras Blances   targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses  
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Spoils System   practice of political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather then to people based on their qualifications  
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Civil Service   a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch  
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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 spoils systems  
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Gold Standard   Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold  
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Grange   Farmers' organization formed after the Civil war  
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Populist Party   peoples party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reformers  
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