5: The New South

Where is the LIE about W.E.B. DuBois?

• He wanted 10% of African Americans to get a higher education.

• He was upset with Booker T. Washington since he was trying to speak for all African Americans.

• He was a Baptist minister in Atlanta.

• He didn't believe that making money and waiting were going to improve African Americans' situation.

What caused the 1906 Atlanta Riot?

• Henry Grady wrote against African Americans in the Atlanta Journal newspaper.
• False stories in the newspapers about black men attacking white women
• White and black customers of Alonzo Herndon's started fighting in the Crystal Palace Barber Shop.
• Tom Watson was trying to pass more laws in Congress that would hurt African Americans.

Booker T. Washington thought if blacks could just do this that whites would accept them socially and politically.

• Earn college degrees
• Own large homes
• Make enough money
• Own their own businesses

Select all that were used by whites to try to disenfranchise blacks.

• literacy tests
• poll taxes
• gerrymandering
• vision tests

Select all true statement(s) about Alonzo Herndon.

• He was born free.

• He opened barber shops in Atlanta for all men .
• He could not enter his businesses through the front door.
• He hired black college graduates to run his company.

Which is NOT true about Leo Frank?

• He was charged with the murder of Mary Phagan and sentenced to death.
• The governor of GA changed his sentence to "life in prison."
• Leo's friends kidnapped him from prison and helped him hide from police in Marietta.
• The KKK reorganized in Georgia after Mary Phagan's death.

Profit =

• Revenue minus expenses
• Revenue minus taxes
• Expenses plus taxes
• Revenue minus employees' wages

Who was/is NOT an entrepreneur? (All of these people were in the Unit 5 PPT.)

• Ted Turner
• Truett Cathy
• Leo Frank
• Arthur Blank

Which choice(s) is/are true about the Port of Savannah Expansion?

• The expansion project of the port has created new jobs.

• Shipping costs have gone down 20 - 40% since the huge ships are able to use our expanded port.

• The ships now coming through Savannah are five times larger than the ships were before the port was expanded.

• SHEP = Savannah Harbor Expansion Project

Of all the overnight tourists in Georgia, how many actually live here in the state?

• 1/10

• 1/5

• 1/3

• 3/4