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The “New South” was created after Reconstruction, and was influenced by a variety of individuals, groups, and events. Which statement BEST describes the influence of the group known as the Bourbon Triumvirate during this time? (H7a)

• The Bourbon Triumvirate gave more power to the Freedmen’s Bureau.
• Increasing industry and lowering taxes were two major goals of the Bourbon Triumvirate.
• The Bourbon Triumvirate encouraged more government services for taxpayers.
• Improvement of public schools and educational equality were the focus of the Bourbon Triumvirate.

All of the following were purposes of the International Cotton Exposition EXCEPT to(H7a)

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

As a Populist Georgia politician, Tom Watson fought for the rights of (H7a)

• bankers and lawyers.
• industrialists and manufacturers.
• farmers and the working class.
• immigrants and northerners.

The New South refers to a time period when all of the following occurred EXCEPT (H7a)

• promoting racial equality for former slaves.
• expanding Georgia’s economy beyond agriculture.
• rebuilding Georgia after the Civil War.
• continuing racist practices and crimes.

The Southern laws which ensured that blacks and white 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 (H7b)

• Black Code
• Jim Crow Laws
• Populist laws
• Regressive laws

The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v Ferguson (1896) basically legalized (H7b)

• discrimination of women in the workplace.
• the segregation of people according to race.
• preventing people from voting based on race.
• housing discrimination against ethnic groups.

In the first half of the 20th century, literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to (H7b)

• deny suffrage to women.
• end the Reconstruction Era.
• disenfranchise African Americans.
• help pay for the growing New Deal programs.

Which event is being described?  (H7b)

Newspapers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women
White mobs killed and wounded dozens of blacks
White mobs inflicted substantial property damage in Atlanta

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906.
• Cotton States Exposition.
• Leo Frank verdict.
• Plessy v. Ferguson verdict.

Which group was created to resist Reconstruction and orchestrated over 400 lynchings that happened in Georgia from 1880-1930? (H7b)

• Ku Klux Klan
• Scalawags
• White Knights
• Knights of Columbus.

Which influential historian and civil rights activist is pictured and described

• W.E.B DuBois
• Fredrick Douglas
• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver