GA Studies Test Review The New South

What was the concept of the New South?

•  a. The South would become more racially tolerant by whites and blacks working together 
• b. Making the South more reliant on Northern resources and industry 
• c. Making the South stronger and more independent by becoming industrial 
• d. Atlanta would be rebuilt after the damage caused by the Civil War

Which of the following best describes the Bourbon Triumvirate’s goals during the Redemption period?

• A time for black and white southerners to come together and work in harmony to rebuilt the state’s economic, social, and political systems.
• . A blending of the new and the 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.

. The main purpose of the International Cotton Exposition held in Atlanta was to

• Get ideas from foreign countries on new agricultural methods
• Attract tourism to Georgia
• . Showcase the industries of the New South and attract Northern investors
• Display to the nation, Georgia’s reliance on agriculture

The Populist Party in Georgia was more likely to attract

• Wealthy individuals
• Abolitionists
• Small Farmers
• Federal bureaucrats

The 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
• Articles of black violence against whites

he END result of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot was 

• A series of newspaper articles falsely accusing African American men of attacking white women
• Deeper segregation in the city and more of an economic divide between the African American social elite and the white lower class
• Fighting between whites and African Americans in the streets
• Unwanted negative national and international attention on Atlanta

The racial unrest brought about by the Leo Frank case resulted in the rebirth of..

• The Union League
•  The Ku Klux Klan
• he Populist Party
• The General Assembly

The county unit system affected voting and politics in Georgia by

• Helping blacks get more voting power
• Favoring cities where the majority of people lived
• Focusing political power within the city of Atlanta
• Giving rural areas of the state more power

All of the following were methods used to disfranchise blacks in the early 1900s EXCEPT the

• Poll taxt  
• Literacy test
• Grandfather clause
• Voter identification

n which court case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that “separate but equal” did not violate the Constitutional rights of African Americans.

• Leo Frank Case
•  Plessy v. Ferguson
•  Worcester v. Georgia
• Brown v. Board of Education