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Chapter 7 Vocabulary

Chapter 7 Vocabulary- 17 words

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1. Jim Crow Laws laws that kept blacks and whited segregated
2. poll tax taxes voters had to pay to vote
3. literacy test a test given to African Americans to test check their understanding and knowledge
4. grandfather clause allowed voters to vote as long as their ancestors had voted prior to 1866
5. Booker T. Washington argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation, meaning they shouldn't focus their energies on seeking to overturn Jim Crow
6. W.E.B. Du Bois argues that blacks should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education
7. Ida B. Wells an African American school teacher who fought for justice
8. Las Gorras Blancas targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire fences and burning houses
9. spoils system politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard to their qualifications
10. civil service a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch
11. Pendleton Civil Service Act established a Civil Service Commission which wrote a civil service exam
12. gold standard the government would use gold as a basis of the nation's currency
13. Oliver H. Kelley a Minnesota farmer, businessman, journalist, and government clerk
14. Grange provided education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates
15. Populist Party People's Party- sought to build a new political party from the grass roots up
16. William Jennings Bryan the Democratic candidate put the election for the Populists on an entirely different plane, leading some to believe they could win the white House that year
17. William McKinley the Republican candidate accumulated approximately $15 million, 30 times more than Bryan had and allowed party regulars to do the campaigning for him
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