SS8H7 GMAS PREP

The Populist Party was chiefly composed of

• individual farmers

• Eastern businessmen

• Northern abolitionists

• Northern factory owners

In the first half of the 20th century (early 1900s), literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to

• deny the right to vote to women

• end the Reconstruction Era

• deny the right to vote to African Americans

• help pay for the growing New Deal programs

The Southern laws which ensured that blacks and whites attended separate schools, drank from separate water fountains, attended separate churches, rode in separate railroad cars, and visited separate parks and recreational facilities were BEST known as

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

• Populist laws

• Regressive laws

As members of the Bourbon Triumvirate, Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon all supported

• expanding the railroad system

• high taxes for state residents

• equal rights for newly freed slaves

• shutting down the coal-mining industry

The US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, 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

What was the impact of literacy tests and poll taxes in Georgia?

• They kept blacks and poor whites from voting.

• They started a migration of black to urban areas.

• They caused black and poor whites to work together.

• They made elections in the south more fair for everyone.

What was the main purpose of Atlanta playing host to the International Cotton Expositions (1881, 1885, 1895)

• They hoped to show that Atlanta had many different economic capabilities.

• They showed that Georgia was the only choice for buying cotton in the Southeast.

• They proved that Atlanta was no longer discriminating against its Black citizens.

• They helped to boost Georgia's international image by hosting a series of athletic competitions.

I was jailed for sitting in the "whites only" section of a rail car; I sued claiming my 14th & 15th Amendment rights had been violated.

• Homer Plessy

• Alonzo Herndon

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

I founded the NAACP.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Alonzo Herndon

• Homer Plessy

I was editor of the Atlanta Constitution and coined the term "New South".

• Tom Watson

• Henry Grady

• Alonzo Herndon

• Leo Frank