New South
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New SouthStudy Guide Game
QUESTIONPolitical leaders who dominated Georgia after Reconstruction, supported new industry and often appealed to white supremacy were called what?
Radical Republicans Populists The Bourbon Triumvirate Alliance Democrats
ANSWER The Bourbon Triumvirate
QUESTIONA small farmer in Georgia who was suffering economically during the 1890’s would have most likely been drawn to which of the following? The Bourbons The Populists The New South Henry Grady
ANSWERThe Populists
QUESTIONAs the leader of the New South movement, what was Henry Grady supporting? Blacks leaving the South to work in the North. Southerners growing more cotton for export. Northern investment in southern industry. Southern investment in northern factories.
ANSWER Northern investment in southern
industry.
QUESTIONWho of the following was NOT a member of the Bourbon Triumvirate? Alfred Colquitt Alexander Stephens Joe Brown John Gordon
ANSWER Alexander Stephens
QUESTIONThe main purpose of the International Cotton Exposition that was held in Atlanta was to Showcase the industries of the New South. Get ideas from foreign countries. Showcase the cotton gin. Bring visitors to Atlanta.
ANSWER Showcase the industries of the New
South.
QUESTIONWhat group was supported by Tom Watson?FarmersMill workersMiners Railroad workers
ANSWER Farmers
QUESTIONThe immediate cause of the riot that occurred in Atlanta in 1906 was The killing of a black family. Blacks being denied the right to vote. The election of Hoke Smith as governor. Stories of black violence against whites
in the Atlanta newspapers.
ANSWER Stories of black violence against whites
in the Atlanta newspapers.
QUESTIONWhat happened to Leo Frank
after his trial? He was sentenced and put to death.
He spent the rest of his life in prison. He was taken from jail and lynched.
He was found guilty, but was later freed.
ANSWER He was taken from jail and lynched.
QUESTIONThe county unit system affected voting and politics in Georgia by favoring cities where most people lived. Focusing power inside the Atlanta area. Favoring cities where most people lived. Helping blacks get more voting power. Giving the rural areas more power.
ANSWER Giving the rural areas more power.
QUESTIONWhat was the purpose of the
“Jim Crow” or segregation laws passed by Georgia’s government at the turn of the century?
To make alcohol illegal. To continue white control. To promote industry in Georgia. To provide equality for black Georgians.
ANSWER To continue white control.
QUESTIONWhat became legal under Plessy
V. Ferguson? Blacks and whites could have separate schools. Blacks and whites could attend the same
schools. Blacks and whites could be admitted to the
same hospital. Blacks and whites could drink from the same
water fountain.
ANSWER Blacks and whites could have separate
schools.
QUESTIONWhich notable African-American
leader believed that blacks should strive to be intellectuals and helped forum the NAACP? W.E.B. Dubois Booker T. Washington Jim Crow Leo Frank
ANSWER W.E.B. Dubois
QUESTIONWhat were the grandfather
clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests intended to do? End segregation Protect African-American voting rights Discriminate against Jewish Georgians Disfranchise
ANSWER Disfranchise
QUESTIONWho was the first black
president of Atlanta Baptist College?
Frederick Douglass John Hope W.E.B. DuBois Booker T. Washington
ANSWER John Hope
QUESTIONWhat organization was NOT
founded by Lugenia Burns Hope?
D.E.C.C.A. Neighborhood Union Girl Scouts Y.W.C.A.
ANSWER Girl Scouts
QUESTIONWhat business made Alonzo
Herndon a successful businessman?
Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company Georgia Pacific Coca-Cola Western and Atlantic Railroad
ANSWER Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company
QUESTION Which of the following was NOT a way
in which Georgia politicians disfranchised blacks?
Jim Crow Laws Poll Tax Literacy Tests White Primary
ANSWER Jim Crow Laws
QUESTIONThe New South Movement was more concerned with changing Georgia
economically. socially. politically. racially.
ANSWER economically.
QUESTIONGeorgia’s first JIM CROW LAW
required separate for blacks and whites.
Schools Street cars Railroad passenger cars Water fountains
ANSWER Railroad passenger cars
QUESTIONThe Grandfather Clause
allowed Grandfathers to vote without paying a poll tax. Anyone to vote who had a grandfather born in
Georgia. Any to vote who was a Civil War veteran or a
descendant of a Civil War veteran to exempt the literacy test for voting.
Anyone to vote if a grandfather on either side of the family was still living.
ANSWER Any to vote who was a Civil War veteran or a
descendant of a Civil War veteran to exempt the literacy test for voting.
QUESTIONWhat Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution allowed women the right to vote? 14th 18th 15th 19th
ANSWER 19th
QUESTIONA farmer’s most valuable
possession, which was often the subject of bank liens, was his
Labor. Tools Crop. Seeds
ANSWER Crop.
QUESTIONLaws meant to separate races in society
ANSWER Segregation
QUESTIONMovement toward more industry and less farming
ANSWER New South
QUESTIONTaking away the right to vote
ANSWER disfranchise
Who Henry Grady Tom Watson Leo Frank Rebecca Latimer Felton John Hope Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois Alexander Stephens
QUESTIONPopulist politician in Georgia
ANSWER Tom Watson
QUESTIONOpened the Tuskegee Institute
ANSWER Booker T. Washington
QUESTIONStarted the Niagara Movement- movement to end segregation
ANSWER W.E.B. Dubous
QUESTIONProgressive who supported social reform – prisons, child labor.
ANSWER Rebecca Latimer Felton
QUESTIONLeader of the New South Movement
ANSWER Henry Grady