SS8H7 Test Review

In the first half of the 20th century, literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to

• deny suffrage to women.
• end the Reconstruction Era.
• deny suffrage to African Americans.
• help pay for the growing New Deal programs.

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
• forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.
• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.
• were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.
  

The Highland Scots of Darien and the Salzburgers fought against the malcontents who wished to

• lift the ban Georgia had on slavery.
• use Georgia’s farmland to grow rice.
• take away land from other colonists.
• integrate Georgia and South Carolina.

Which event that resulted in white mobs killing and wounding dozens of blacks and inflicting substantial property damage was caused by Atlanta newspapers' untrue reports that black men were attacking white women?

• Albany Movement
• Civil Rights Movement
• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
• 1881 International Cotton Exposition

Rebecca Latimer Felton is MOST famous for

• arguing for the end of the convict lease system.
• writing a book about her husband’s political career.
• becoming the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
• writing speeches for her husband, Senator William Felton.

The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that

• all children receive permission to attend the same school.
• whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks.
• the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states.
• the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality.

Because of the climate in Georgia, early colonists found Georgia to be a good place for

• the king to reside.
• the first American colony.
• growing crops to send to England.
• hiring people to work in England.
  

Which choice is a written document that provides a town with the permission to exist and function?

• State General Assembly
• Commissioner's Report
• Strong-Mayor Council
• Municipal Charter

Which statement BEST describes a similarity in the Strong Mayor-Council and the Weak Mayor-Council forms of government in Georgia?

• The city council is the only power with the right to appoint and to fire heads of departments.
• The city council shares the executive and policy-making responsibilities with the mayor.
  
• The city council has the authority to veto legislation passed by the mayor.
• The city council may have some of its members appointed by the mayor.

All of the phrases describe which Georgia politician?

• Tom Watson
• M. Hoke Smith
• Eugene Talmadge
• Rebecca L. Felton