SS8H7 New South

This political cartoon has a picture of Lady Liberty holding a newspaper with Mary Phagan's name on it. She is pointing to the detective department asking, "Are you asleep in there". What might this cartoon be referring to?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Disenfranchisement 
• The Leo Frank Case
• The Civil Rights Movement

Which illegal laws forced segregation in public facilities in the South?

• Jim Crow laws
• Poll taxes
• Literacy tests
• Grandfather clauses

Which court case made acts like the one shown in this picture legal?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Fergusson
• Dred Scot v. Sanford

What were Booker T. Washington's beliefs about African Americans and equal rights?

• He believed that equal rights are God-given rights, and therefore, should not be denied.
• He believed that economic independence was the only way to achieve social and political equality.
• He thought that equality was a lost cause and that African Americans should use violence to achieve it.
• Washington believed that in order for African Americans to achieve equality, they must join the NAACP.

Homer Plessy, a black person, was arrested on a railroad train and his case was appealed all the way to theSupreme Court. The 1896 court decision in Plessy v Ferguson became the legal basis for the next 60 years. The court ruled against Plessy and provided a legal backing for...

• Segregation
• Slavery
• Poll taxes 
• Literacy tests

Which Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 15th
• 13th
• 16th
• 19th

The county unit system was designed so that which counties had more advantage

• urban
• town
• rural
• none of these

Extra information from the time period: Pharmacist who created Coca Cola as a medicine

• Asa Candler

• John Pemberton

• Robert Woodruff

• W.E.B. DuBois

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

• Booker T. Washington
• Robert Woodruff
• Asa Candler
• John Pemberton

What was the secret white supremacy organization that became a force in Georgia during Reconstruction and tried to prevent freedmen from exercising their civil rights?

• The Georgia Act
• The Freedmen’s Bureau
• The Ku Klux Klan
• The Grange