Ch. 7 Vocab Terms Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
1. Jim Crow Laws | Kepts blacks and whites segregated, or apart |
2. Poll Tax | Required voters to pay a tax to vote |
3. Litercay Tests | Readung and writing tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
4. Grandfather Clause | Allowed a person to vote as long ashis ancestors had voted prior to 1866 |
5. Las Gorras Blancas | Targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses |
6. Spoils System | Practice of the poltical party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters rather than to people based on their qualifications |
7. Civil Service | System that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
8. Pendleton Civil Service Act | Established a Civil Service Commission which wrote a civil service exam |
9. Gold Standard | Policy of designating monetaey units in terms of their value in gold |
10. Grange | Farmers' organization formed after the Civil War |
11. Popilist Party | People's party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
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