American History Chapter 9

2. a tax required before a person can vote (two words)
5. a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail (two words)
7. a land grant or other financial help from the government
10. an enclosure for animals
11. a house build of soil held together by grass roots (two words)
13. a Spanish or Mexican cowhand
14. ___ clause; a law that excused s voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
15. the width of a train track

1. a system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the business in an area and set prices
3. ___ test; an examination to see if a person can read and write, used in the past to restrict voting rights
4. ___ laws; laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South (two words)
6. a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s
7. a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
8. ___ codes; the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
9. a rich vein of gold, silver, or other valuable ore
12. the legal separation of people based on racal, ethnic, or other differences