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1. Jim Crow Laws a set of laws that kept blacks and whites segregated.
2. poll tax people who wanted to vote had to pay a tax
3. literacy test reading and writing tests required by the states.
4. grandfather clause a person could vote as long as they had ancestors who voted before 1866.
5. Booker T. Washington a famous black leader who said blacks should not focus on being segregated but look towards being hardworking and honest citizens.
6. W.E.B. Du Bois graduated from Harvard, criticized Washington for giving into the whites, and argued that blacks should have equality.
7. Ida B. Wells an African American woman who fought for the rights of other African Americans. she bought the local newspaper and renamed it "Free Speech".
8. Las Gorras Blancas a large group of mexicans who attacked ranch owners by cutting wholes in their barbed wire and burning houses.
9. spoils system politicians who awarded government positions to loyal party members,regardless of their requirements.
10. civil service a system that has federal jobs among the executive branch
11. Pendleton Civil Service Act an act that established a a civil service exam. people who wanted to work for the government had to pass the exam.
12. Gold Standard were the government would use gold as the basis for the U.S. currency
13. Oliver H. Kelley a Minnesota farmer,and government clerk who organized the Grange.
14. Grange had goals to educate people on new farming techniques and regulate the railroad and grain elevator rates.
15. Populist Party a People's Party that sought to build a new political party from scratch. spread rapidly and made two major political parties consider their demands.
16.William Jennings Bryan the Democratic representative to be president, some believed he would win the election.
17. William McKinley the Republican Representative to be president. allowed other party members to campaign for him. won the election
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