Monday Vocab Quiz

Question 1

Farmers who work land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop

Answer 1

Sharecropper

Question 2

Statutes or laws created to enforce segregation

Answer 2

Jim Crow laws

Question 3

A clause that allowed individuals who did not pass a literacy test tomorrow to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction began; an exception to a law based on preexisting circumstances

Answer 3

Grandfather clause

Question 4

A person who believes that American currency should be based on a gold standard

Answer 4

Gold bug

Question 5

A political movement founded in the 1890s representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other large industries

Answer 5

Populism

Question 6

Another name for the spoils system, in which government jobs or favors are given out to political allies and friends

Answer 6

Patronage

Question 7

A partial refund to lower the rate of a good or commodity

Answer 7

Rebate

Question 8

Store where farmers bought products from each other an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its service

Answer 8

Cooperative

Question 9

Tax based on the net income of an individual or business and which taxes different income levels at different rates

Answer 9

Graduated income tax

Question 10

An execution performed without lawful approval

Answer 10

Lynching

Question 11

A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote

Answer 11

Poll tax

Question 12

Person who believes that coining silver currency in unlimited quantities will eliminate economic crisis

Answer 12

Silverite

Question 13

A piece of U.S paper money first issued by the north during the civil war

Answer 13

Green back

Question 14

The loss of value of money

Answer 14

Inflation