New South SS8H7ab

The southern states passed a variety of laws legalizing racial segregation and mandating separate public facilities known as _________.

• White Supremacy Laws

• Plessy Laws

• Disenfranchise Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

What is meant by disenfranchisement?

• The state of being denied rights or privileges, especially the right to vote

• The doctrine established by Plessy vs Ferguson case allowing public facilities to be segregated as long as they were equal

• The advancement of black rights

• The crimes committed against farmers, Jews, and poor whites during the New South Era

Disenfranchising tactic placing a tax on voting, preventing poor blacks and whites from voting

• Grandfather Clause

• The White Primary

• Literacy Tests

• Poll taxes

Disenfranchising tactic requiring voters to take a reading and writing test before being allowed to vote

• Grandfather Clause

• The White Primary

• Literacy Tests

• Poll Taxes

Which of the following led to the riots in Atlanta in 1906? (There are 2 correct answers)

• Economic competition (search for jobs) between poor whites and blacks

• The crimes against Mary Phagan

• The lynching of Leo Frank by the Knights of Mary Phagan

• Allegations of blacks attacking white women

Who were the Southern Democrats who dominated Georgia politics during the late 1800s for about 20 years?

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Tom Watson and the Populists

• Confederacy

• Henry Grady and the Atlanta Constitution

Who was the leader of the Populist Party, who represented the common man, especially farmers? He was against industry and brought Rural Free Delivery of mail to Georgians.

• Henry Grady

• John B. Gordon

• Tom Watson

• Joseph Brown

Who promoted the "New South" and Bourbon Triumvirate in his news articles at the Atlanta Constitution. He was the "voice of the New South"

• Tom Watson

• John B. Gordon

• Joseph Brown

• Henry Grady

The "New South" movement was attempting to redefine Georgia and push the economy into one that depended more heavily on what?

• Agriculture

• Industry

• Rice

• Cotton

What event took place in Atlanta in 1881, 1887, and 1897 that helped promote the "New South" and attract Northern investors into the region?

• International Cotton Exposition

• World's Fair

• Olympic Games

• New South Fair