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Chapter 7-US
17 words
| 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 tests formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| grandfather clause | law to disqualify Afican American voters by allowing to vote only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1867 |
| Booker T.Washington | a famous black leader who argued that African Americans should accomodate themelves to segregation.He called for blacks to build up their economic resources and establish their reputations as hardworking and honest citizens |
| W.E.B Du Bois | criticized Washington's willingness to accomodate southern whites.He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education. |
| Ida B. Wells | Began a local newspaper called the Free Speech and wrote numerous articles that condemned the mistreatment of blacks. She also helped organize women's clubs to fight for African American rights |
| 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 |
| spoils system | practice of the politicalparty in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications |
| civil service | governments departments and their nonelected employees |
| Pandleton Civil Service Act | law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attepmt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system |
| gold standard | policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold |
| Oliver H. Kelly | a Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk, organized the Grange |
| Grange | farmers' organization formed after the Civil War whose goals included providing education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates |
| Populist Party | People's Party. political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| William Jennings Bryan | presidential candidate for the Democatic Party in 1896 who advocated the coinage of silver and gold.He favored the poor farmers over large corporations and backed many Progressive causes |
| William McKinley | the Republican candidate running against Bryan. His party regulators casted Bryan as a potential dictator and threat to the Republic. McKinley won the election. |
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