New South Vocabulary

Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.

• Bourbon Triumvirate
• Populist Party

• International Cotton Exposition

• Atlanta Race Riot

Managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.”

• Grady, Henry
• Alonzo Herndon

• W E B DuBois

• Leo Frank

To deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.

• Disenfranchisement
• Suffrage

• Progressivism

• Pupulism

Period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.

• New South
• Redemption

• Triumvirate

• Rebuilding

A short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.

• Populist Party
• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Progressive Party

Laws created by state legislatures, following the Plessy v Ferguson Case to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights

• Jim Crow Laws
• Disenfranchisement Laws

• Voting Laws

• Black Codes

Lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party with a progressive view of racial policies; ended his career as an ardent segregationist and anti-Semite; died while serving a term as U.S. senator from Georgia.

• Tom Watson

• Henry Grady

• Booker T. Watson

• Alonzo Herndon

Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine thus promoting segregation. Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine thus promoting segregation.

• Plessy v Ferguson
• Worcester v Georgia

• Dred Scot v Sandford

• Brown v the Board of Education

Civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Alonzo Herndon

• Tom Watson

Founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

• Booker T. Washington

• Alonzo Herndon
• Lee Frank

• W. E. B. DuBois