SS8H7: The New South Unit Assessment

The Bourbon Triumvirate believed in

• lower taxes and increased government spending.
• stronger economic ties with the industrial north in order to expand Georgia’s economy & white  supremacy.
• economic assistance for the poor.
• expansion of educational opportunities for African American males.

Which description BEST explains how the Bourbon Triumvirate might have described the Redemption (New South) period?

• A time for black and white southerners to come together and work in harmony to rebuild the state’s economic, social and political systems.
• A blending of the new and old, keeping old southern traditions while building new traditions around industries to rival the North.
• A New South Progressive era when farms had to be replaced by business and industry in order for the South to prosper.
• A time for social, economic, and political reforms to ease the suffering caused by the war.

As 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

Which Georgians and his achievement are matched correctly?

• Tom Watson – civil rights leader
  
• Hoke Smith – inventor of the steam engine
• Henry Grady – editor of the Atlanta Constitution
• Joseph E. Brown – mayor of Atlanta after the Civil War

The New South, envisioned by Henry W. Grady, would

• provide separate facilities for different races.
• maintain its southern heritage.
• rival the North economically.
• promote tourism.

The 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.

The International Cotton Exposition was held in

• Athens.
• Savannah.
• Augusta.
• Atlanta.

What Georgia Populist leader called on black and white farmers to unite in an effort to gain fair treatment from the state and national governments?

• Alfred Colquitt
• Henry Grady
• Henry McNeal Turner
• Tom Watson

The Populist party in Georgia was the party of the

• wealthy.
• abolitionists.
• African Americans.
• small farmers. 

What was Tom Watson’s greatest accomplishment?

• a voting bill for women
• the Rural Free Delivery Bill
• a bill to provide meat inspection
• a bill to increase the minimum wage