New South Cumulative Questions Only

Multiple Choice

Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon were known as the

• 3 Musketeers

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Populists

• Henry Grady's Guys

Multiple Choice

Where did the Bourbons look for investors for their business?

• The South

• Their Neighbors

• The North

• Europe

Multiple Choice

Who was the leader of the Populist Party?

• Jefferson Davis

• Alfred Hitchcock

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Tom Watson

Multiple Choice

Henry Grady used his newspaper, The Atlanta Journal, to promote the "New South", which was based on

• New industry, racial harmony, and crop diversification

• Railroads, racial harmony, and cotton farming

• Segregation, the convict-lease system, and crop diversification

• Racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and cotton farming

Multiple Select

The main goal of the Bourbon Triumvirate was to increase

• Industry

• Railraods

• the profits for poor farmers

• the political power of the Republican party

Multiple Choice

Tom Watson broke away from the Democratic party and joined the Populist party because he wanted to help

• Poor farmers

• Wealthy landowners

• Wealthy bussinessmen

• Powerful lawmakers

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the International Cotton Exposition was to

• Show off Atlanta's industry and farming developments

• Show off Atlanta's racial equality and unity

• Show off Atlanta's new gold domed capital building

• Show off Atlanta's new transportation systems

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does NOT describe Henry Grady?

• New South promoter; spokesman
• Editor, writer for Atlanta Constitution
• Populist  who wanted to help small farmers in GA

Multiple Choice

This set of laws enforced segregation:

• John Eagle Laws

• Disenfranchisement Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• The KKK Laws

Multiple Choice

Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

• Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

• Disenfranchisement

Multiple Choice

Taking away African American's right to vote is:

• Disenfranchisement

• Atlanta Race Riot

• Segregation

• Party Laws

Multiple Choice

48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.

• Anti-Semitism

• Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

• Separate but Equal

Multiple Choice

Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon were known as the

• 3 Musketeers

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Populists

• Henry Grady's Guys

Multiple Choice

Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.

• Separate but Equal

• Literacy Test

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

Multiple Choice

A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

• Grandfather Clause

• Anti-Semitism

• Literacy Test

Multiple Choice

The Farmer's Alliance eventually turned into what political party?

• The Populist Party

• The Democratic Party

• The Dance Party

• The Libertarian Party

Multiple Choice

Who was the leader of the Populist Party?

• Jefferson Davis

• Alfred Hitchcock

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Tom Watson

Multiple Choice

Henry Grady used his newspaper, The Atlanta Journal, to promote the "New South", which was based on

• New industry, racial harmony, and crop diversification

• Railroads, racial harmony, and cotton farming

• Segregation, the convict-lease system, and crop diversification

• Racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and cotton farming

Multiple Choice

A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy Test

• Anti-Semitism

• Poll Tax

Multiple Select

The main goal of the Bourbon Triumvirate was to increase

• Industry

• Railraods

• the profits for poor farmers

• the political power of the Republican party

Multiple Choice

Tom Watson broke away from the Democratic party and joined the Populist party because he wanted to help

• Poor farmers

• Wealthy landowners

• Wealthy bussinessmen

• Powerful lawmakers

Multiple Choice

True or False.

Segregation included:

•separate schools

•public transportation

•water fountains and bathrooms

•graveyards and Bibles used to swear on in courts

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the International Cotton Exposition was to

• Show off Atlanta's industry and farming developments

• Show off Atlanta's racial equality and unity

• Show off Atlanta's new gold domed capital building

• Show off Atlanta's new transportation systems

Multiple Choice

Examples of Disenfranchisement:

• No poll taxes, everyone could vote no matter their race or financial status, no literacy test to take, free voting rights

• Poll taxes, most poor whites and blacks could not afford to pay, African Americans could not vote in the primaries, some whites were "passed" even though they did not actually pass the test.

• They let everyone vote so they could elect a lot of people into office no matter the color, poll taxes were waived for everyone for three years