SS8H7: Georgia and the New South

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

"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

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

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 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.

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)

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

I attended a funeral once in Pickens county in my State.... They buried him in the midst of a marble quarry: they cut through solid marble to make his grave; and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh."

- Henry W. Grady

What can you conclude about the purpose of Grady's speech?

• He preferred the northern states.

• He thought the Civil War had been a huge mistake.

• He believed Georgia's economy was severely lacking.

• He was opposed to burying people close to quarries.

Henry Grady used his newspaper, The Atlanta Journal, to promote the "New South", which was based on

• New industry, racial harmony, and crop diversification

• Railroads, racial harmony, and cotton farming

• Segregation, the convict-lease system, and crop diversification

• Racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and cotton farming

All of the following were purposes of the International Cotton Exposition EXCEPT to

• promote Atlanta’s industrial capabilities and accomplishments.

• attract Northern investment into the city and region.

• provide jobs for former slaves and give them opportunities to sell their cotton.

• promote Atlanta’s rebuilding and boost the economy after the Civil War.