New South

Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E.Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated politics for over 20 years;two major goals were increasing industry and lowering taxes.

• W. E. B. DuBois

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Populists

• New South

Managing editor for the Atlanta Journal, a newspaper; he wanted to diversify (vary Georgia’s economy).

• Henry Grady

• Tom Watson

• Booker T. Washington

• Leo Frank

Three large events with the purpose of rebuilding Atlanta and boosting its economy by getting Northerners to invest their money in Atlanta.

• New South

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Jim Crow laws

• International Cotton Exposition

He wanted more rights for farmers and the working class; known for the Rural Free Delivery Act, which provided free mail delivery to rural areas of the country.

• Alonzo Herndon

• Henry Grady

• W. E. B. DuBois

• Tom Watson

A short-lived political party that was made up of farmers and wanted government control over banks and railroads. Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Populists

• Jim Crow laws

A time period in Georgia’s history where Georgians tried to rebuild after the Civil War by encouraging industrial growth instead of relying on farming,or agriculture; racial practices and crimes still existed.

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• New South

• Jim Crow laws

Laws that ensured segregation... for example, African Americans or blacks and whites attend separate schools and churches drank from separate water fountains road in separate railroad cars and visited separate parks. 

• Jim Crow laws

• Populists

• anti-Semitism

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Supreme court case that established the separate but equal doctrine, which promoted segregation of people according to race.

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• New South

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• Jim Crow laws

After newspapers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women, groups of whites killed and wounded dozens of African Americans or Blacks and caused property damage in Atlanta. 

• New South

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• anti-Semitism

He was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and was co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909; he wanted immediate equality for African Americans or Blacks.

• W. E. B. DuBois

• Leo Frank

• Booker T. Washington

• Alonzo Herndon