Chapters 6 and 7 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Crow Laws Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction
  2. 5. Tax Sum of money to be paid before a person could vote
  3. 9. General Allotment Act 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots.
  4. 12. Civil Service Act Law that required employers to hire employees based on merit not the spoils system
  5. 13. Party People’s Party, formed to advocate for a larger money supply and other economic reforms
  6. 14. To be absorbed into the main culture of a society
  7. 15. Public Lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the Federal Government
  8. 16. Standard System by where the value of a currency ($) was defined in terms of gold
  9. 20. System Practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications
Down
  1. 1. Clause Laws to disqualify African American voters by allowing only men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before to vote
  2. 2. self-appointed law enforcer.
  3. 3. African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War
  4. 6. Test Reading and writing test formerly used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting
  5. 7. Crop Crop grown for sale.
  6. 8. Alliance network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800’s.
  7. 10. Rights Act of 1875 Law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation
  8. 11. Farmers organization formed after the Civil War
  9. 17. Grant Land granted by the Federal Government for building schools, roads, or railroads
  10. 18. Range vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed.
  11. 19. Service Government departments and their non-elected employees