The New South

We worked as a group of three men who held the majority of political power in Georgia during the New South. We wanted to diversify the Southern economy and improve railroads and infrastructures. We also wanted to maintain the political power of white plantation owners. We were the ___________________________

• Ku Klux Klan

• The Powerful Three

• The Bourbon Triumvirate

• The POTUS

The major goal of Henry Grady and his speeches were to

• diversify the South's economy

• promote the northern economy

• gain political power

• encourage Georgians to continue to plant cotton.

This event promoted Atlanta's industrial capabilities and accomplishments, attracted Northern investments into the city and region, and provided jobs for former slaves and gave them opportunities to sell their cotton.

• Atlanta Cotton Exposition

• The 1996 Olympics

• The Atlanta Race of 1906

• None of the above

Tom Watson was a populist politician who fought for the rights of

• bakers and lawyers

• farmers and the working class

• industrialists and manufactures

• immigrants and northerners

The time period where Georgia worked to expand its economy beyond agriculture.

• Reconstructioning

• The Antebellum South

• The Old South

• The New South

Which of the following restricted rights of African Americans and ensured that blacks and whites attended separate schools, drank from separate water fountains and attended separate churches?

• Regressive Laws

• Constitutional Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Populist Laws

The Supreme Court case of Plessy v Ferguson (1896) basically made which of the following legal?

• giving women the right to vote

• integration

• segregation according to race

• housing discrimination against ethnic groups

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were passed in southern states in order to

• prevent women from voting

• disenfranchise African Americans

• end Reconstruction

• help pay for the French and Indian war

Which of the following was not true about the Atlanta Race Riots of 1906?

• Newspapers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women

• Write mobs killed and wounded dozens of blacks

• White mobs inflicted substantial property damage in Atlanta

• The race riots were led by Alonzo Herndon.

The group that was created to resist Reconstitution and orchestrated over 400 lynchings that happened in Georgia form 1880-1930

• Scalawags

• Knights of Columbus

• Ku Klux Klan

• Carpet baggers