NEW SOUTH ERA

The Bourbon Triumvirate believed in

• expansion of educational opportunities for African American males.

• economic assistance for the poor.

• stronger economic ties with the industrial north in order to expand Georgia’s economy & white  supremacy.

• lower taxes and increased government spending.

Which description BEST explains how the Bourbon Triumvirate might have described the Redemption (New South) period?

• A time for black and white southerners to come together and work in harmony to rebuild the state’s economic, social and political systems.

• A New South Progressive era when farms had to be replaced by business and industry in order for the South to prosper.

• A blending of the new and old, keeping old southern traditions while building new traditions around industries to rival the North.

• A time for social, economic, and political reforms to ease the suffering caused by the war.

As the leader of the New South movement, what was Henry Grady supporting?

• northern investment in southern industry

• blacks leaving the South to work in the North

• southerners growing more cotton for export

• southern investment in northern factories

Which Georgians and his achievement are matched correctly?

• Tom Watson – civil rights leader

• Joseph E. Brown – mayor of Atlanta after the Civil War

• Henry Grady – editor of the Atlanta Constitution

• Hoke Smith – inventor of the steam engine

The New South, envisioned by Henry W. Grady, would

• maintain its southern heritage.

• promote tourism.

• provide separate facilities for different races.

• rival the North economically.

What was Tom Watson’s greatest accomplishment?

• a voting bill for women

• a bill to increase the minimum wage

• the Rural Free Delivery Bill

• a bill to provide meat inspection

The city of Atlanta MOST LIKELY considered the 1881 International Cotton Exposition a success because

• turnout for the exposition was far greater than expected.

• the event opened up trade relations with other countries.

• city leaders united to host an event that helped the city.

• people from around the world attended the exposition.

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

• were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

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

• whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks.

• all children receive permission to attend the same school.

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

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

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

• end the Reconstruction Era.

• deny suffrage to African Americans.

• deny suffrage to women.

• help pay for the growing New Deal programs.