New South Era/Civil Rights

How did disenfranchisement limit the rights of African-Americans?

• Southern States used teh court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson to make separate but equal facilities.

• Southern States used poll taxes and literacy tests to limit the voting rights of African-Americans.

• Southern States used Jim Crow laws to take away the rights of African-Americans.

• The Southern States used violence to ensure that African-Americans remained sharecroppers.

Which of the following happened during the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot?

• Mobs attacked African-American owned businesses..

• White citizens of Atlanta were angered by newspaper reports of violence against white women.

• At least 25 African-Americans were killed.

• All of the above

How did the International Cotton Exposition influence The South?

• It caused Georgians to build smaller cotton farms.

• It helped bring new investments to The South.

• It helped to spread plantations to other states.

• It ended the relationship between Norhtern and Southern states.

How did W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington differ?

• Dubois started Tuskegee Institute to end racism.

• Washington wanted the Talented Tenth to fight racism.

• Dubois wanted social and political rights immediately- Washington did not.

• Washington start the NAACP to fight racism.

What was the Bourbon Triumvirate's impact on Georgia?

• The helped workers.

• The ended trade with the North.

• They gave more rights to African-Americans

• They helped improve railroad and coal industries.

What did W.E.B. Dubois believe was the BEST way for AFrican Americans or Blacks to achieve equality?

• demand social, political and economic change

• accepting segregation

• patiently wait for change

• moving out of the country.

Why did Leo Frank get convicted of a murder that he didn't commit?

• no one trusted African Americans and Catholics

• distrust of Baptists and Industrialists

• distrust and American Indians and Immigrants

• peopel didn't trust Northerners or Jewish people

Who decided that separate but equal was the "law of the land"?

• President Johnson

• The Supreme Court

• Homer Plessy

• W.E.B. Dubois

Booker T. Washington thought violence was the way for blacks to improve their position in society.

• True

• False

W.E.B. Dubois could be described as patient.

• True

• False