ch 7 vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| 1. jim crow laws | segregation laws created in the south after reconstruction |
| 2. poll tax | required voter to pay a tax to vote |
| 3. literacy test | have to be able to read and write to vote |
| 4. grandfather clause | allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866. |
| 5. spoils system | helped make parties so powerful. |
| 6. civil service | a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch |
| 7. pendleton civil service act | federal government could hire employees on a merit system instead of on the spoils system. |
| 8. gold standard | government would use the gold as basic of the nation's currency. |
| 9. grange | farmers' organization formed after civil war. |
| 10. populist party | people's party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| 11. las gorras blancas | targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences and burning houses |
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