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SS8H7: Georgia and the New South

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8th Grade

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SS8H7: Georgia and the New South
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which black educator delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in which he overlooked social segregation of the races as long as educational and economic opportunities were equal?

W. E. B. DuBois

Booker T. Washington

Alonzo Franklin Herndon

George Washington Carver

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." - Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895


Which prominent Civil Rights leader would have disagreed MOST with Washington's approach to solving the problem of racial inequality in the south?

Marcus Garvey

W. E. B. DuBois

Frederick Douglass

George Washington Carver

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

All of the phrases describe which Georgia politician?

· Born in 1856 and died in 1922

· Populist politician

· Supporter of farmers and the working class

· U.S. Senator from 1921 to 1922

Tom Watson

Henry Grady

Rebecca Latimer Felton

Alfred Colquitt

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Populist Party was established in the 1890's to

support the candidacy of William McKinley.

ensure that the US stayed on the gold standard.

reduce the tax burden on the wealthy industrialist class.

protect the political and economic interests of farmers and laborers.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which group was founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others in 1909 to promote equal treatment of Blacks in America?

The Black Panthers

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What group of people would have been MOST LIKELY to become Populists?

businesspeople who had made great fortunes

leaders who made laws for important cities

teachers who hoped to improve their schools

farmers who received little money for their work

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