Chapt. 7 Vocab Word Scramble
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Jim Crow Laws | Kept whites and blacks segregated. |
Poll Tax | Sum of money that had to be paid for one to vote. |
Literacy Test | Reading and writing tests formerly used in southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. |
Grandfather Clause | Allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866. |
Las Gorrias Blancas | A group of Mexican-Americans who living New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from white landowners. |
Spoils System | Politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party members with little regard for 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 a spoils 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 | People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |
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