New South Practice Assessment

During the late 1800's and early 1900's, what were the laws passed to establish separate-but-equal facilities for different races?

• Discrimination Laws

• Slave Codes

• Separation Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Which of the following BEST describes Henry Grady's vision of The New South?

• It was becoming more industrial, was a great place for Northern industrialists to invest their money, and race relations were much improved.

• The South was maintaining "Old Southern traditions" like discrimination against African Americans.

• Farmers were the most important people in Georgia and politically, farmers were the people who "New South" politicians intended to reach.

• Southerners should ignore the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and should encourage everyone to ignore the fact that they had lost the Civil War.

SELECT FOUR: Which of the following were used to restrict the voting rights of African American's in Georgia?

• Poll taxes

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy tests

• Atlanta Compromise Speech

• White Primaries

Which U.S. Supreme Court case allowed "separate-but-equal" facilities to be legal and acceptable?

• Franklin vs Ferguson

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Worcester vs Georgia

• Jim Crow vs Georgia

Which of the following was a goal of the Bourbon Triumvirate? 

• To help African Americans adjust to their new freedom by providing a strong free public education.
• To maintain what they called "old Southern traditions," which actually meant White supremacy, and discrimination against African Americans like legalized segregation.
• To provide women with suffrage, which is the right to vote.
• To encourage African Americans to participate in "The New South's" social, political, and economic activities as equal partners.

What was the MAIN purpose of the International Cotton Exposition?

• To showcase Georgia's progress since the Civil War and promote investment in Georgia's new industries.

• To build new roads for mail delivery to rural farmers.

• To rally support for the Convict Lease System.

• To have participants listen to speeches by Henry Grady and Booker T. Washington.

Which of the following statements is true about the Grandfather Clause?

• If your grandfather graduated from college, then you were eligible to vote.

• If your grandfather gave you permission to vote, you were eligible to vote.

• If your grandfather had voted in 1867, then you were eligible to vote no matter what the new laws said regarding "literacy."

• If your grandfather was a Civil War veteran, then you were eligible to vote.

What were the Bourbon Triumvirate criticized for?

• They did not support a strong public school system or government services for the poor, and encouraged discrimination against African Americans.

• Nobody criticized them because they were such great guys, helping everyone around them while allowing their own businesses to suffer.

• White Georgians criticized them for openly supporting African American civil and economic rights.

• Large businesses criticized them for their support of small businesses and farms.

These events intended to showcase the New Atlanta to possible northern investors. The intent was to get rich northerners to see that Georgia had changed, and was ”The New South!”

• The opening of the Atlanta Art Exhibit in Midtown

• The International Cotton Expositions

• The Georgia/Georgia Tech annual football game

• The merging of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper with the Atlanta Journal, creating the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution," or the AJC

W.E.B. DuBois would most likely support which of the following?

• Religious equality

• Economic independence will lead to equality

• Immediate political and social equality

• Separate-but-equal facilities