Us History Test – Flashcards
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Jims crow law
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•legislation meant to segregate blacks and whites
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Grandfather clause
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says that if a person's ancestors voted prior to 1866, he did not have to pass a literacy test in order to vote
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Poll tax
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tool used to prevent African Americans from voting by charging them money
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Spoils system
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Giving jobs to people who support a political party regardless of qualifications (led to the assassination of Garfield)
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W.E.B du Bois
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Harvard graduate who criticized Booker T. Washington's ideas
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•Ida B. Wells
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schoolteacher, journalist, and anti-lynching activist
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Oliver H. Kelley
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founder of an organization that taught farmers new farming techniques
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William McKinley
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Republican winner of the 1896 presidential election
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•William Jennings Bryan
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Democratic presidential candidate
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Las Gorras Blancas
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group of Mexican Americans who fought to protect land claims
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Farmers' Alliances
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organizations that brought farmers together to form farm cooperatives
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•Which African American leader said that African Americans need to demand their equality and "pull themselves up by their bootstraps"?
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Booker T. Washington
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For what did Susan B. Anthony get arrested?
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Voting in a New York election
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What was Thomas Nast's occupation?
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Political cartoonist
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How did the spoils system make political parties more powerful?
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by filling important government positions with party supporters
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•For what did white workers accuse Chinese workers on the West Coast?
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Stealing "white" jobs
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Why did Republicans favor high tariffs and the gold standard?
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They thought it would improve the American economy
