SS8H7bd Discrimination in Georgia during the New South Era

Jewish man charged with the murder of Mary Phagan; sentenced to death but overturned to life in prison; lynched by the KKK.

• Tom Watson
• Henry Grady
• Leo Frank
• John Gordon

What was the main cause of the race riot in Atlanta?

• tensions from a political election of Tom Watson as governor

• protests over results of the Leo Frank case

• protests about voting rights being denied to African Americans

• newspaper reports of white women being attacked by black men

The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that

• all children receive permission to attend the same school.

• whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks.

• the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states.

• the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality.

What was NOT a way of disenfranchisement?

• Poll tax

• Literacy test

• Property ownership

• 15th Amendment

Things like Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement, and groups like the Ku Klux Klan led to which result in the south after the Civil War?

• an increase in slavery

• an increase in racial violence

• more jobs for blacks in the south

• decrease in the use of sharecropping

These events were the outcome of an historic event in Georgia that had lasting effects on race relations in the state. What was this event?

• Atlanta's black community saw businesses and people leave from their community
• Passage of Georgia's Prohibition Laws
• More restrictions on black suffrage

• Lynching of Leo Frank

• Ku Klux Klan meetings

• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• Sherman's Capture of Atlanta and the March to the Sea

What was the historical significance of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The case eliminated the power of suffrage in states in the area of civil rights.

• The case abolished the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

• The case provided for a precedent and legal basis for segregation.

• The case provided for voting rights for all Americans.

Which example of a Jim Crow law is being described?

• Forced people to pay before they voted
• Designed to limit African American voting rights
• Usually enforced in addition to literacy tests

• poll tax

• voter ID

• fingerprinting

• grandfather clause

What do these topics all have in common?

• Grandfather Clause
• Poll Tax
• Literacy Test
• White Primary

• citizenship

• Jim Crow Laws

• disenfranchisement

• equal rights before the law

What was the Jim Crow system?

• a system of economic struggle before World War I

• a system of racial segregation in the North after the Civil War

• a system of racial segregation in the South after the Civil War

• a system of African American slavery in America before the Civil War