Test Review

Jim Crow laws  legislation meant to segregate blacks and whites  grandfather clause says that if a person’s ancestors voted prior to 1866, he did not have to pass a literacy test in order to vote  poll tax tool used to prevent African Americans from voting by charging them money  spoils system Giving jobs to people who support a political party regardless of qualifications (led to the assassination of Garfield)

 W.E.B. Du Bois Harvard graduate who criticized Booker T. Washington’s ideas  Ida B. Wells schoolteacher, journalist, and anti-lynching activist  Oliver H. Kelley founder of an organization that taught farmers new farming techniques  William McKinley Republican winner of the 1896 presidential election  William Jennings Bryan Democratic presidential candidate who supported “free silver”

 Las Gorras Blancas group of Mexican Americans who fought to protect land claims  Farmers’ Alliances organizations that brought farmers together to form farm cooperatives

 Which African American leader said that African Americans need to demand their equality and “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”? W.E.B. Dubois  For what did Susan B. Anthony get arrested? Voting in a New York election  What was Thomas Nast’s occupation? Political cartoonist  How did the spoils system make political parties more powerful? by filling important government positions with party supporters

 For what did white workers accuse Chinese workers on the West Coast? Stealing “white” jobs  Why did Republicans favor high tariffs and the gold standard? They thought it would improve the American economy