Beyers Unit 7 Vocab Quiz

a system that provided convict labor to private parties such as railroad companies or plantation owners.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• International Cotton Expositions
• Atlanta Race Massacre
• Convict Lease System
• Bourbon Triumvirate

a series of three large events established to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.

• Literacy Test
• International Cotton Expositions
• Atlanta Race Massacre
• Convict Lease System
• Poll Tax

a short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.

• Leo Frank
• Populist Party
• Tom Watson
• Henry Grady
• Jim Crow Laws

most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party and wanted to help farmers

• Leo Frank
• Populist Party
• Tom Watson
• Henry Grady

48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.

• Literacy Test
• Rural Free Delivery
• International Cotton Expositions
• Atlanta Race Massacre

disenfranchisement law that said if a person’s father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well.

• Literacy Test
• Booker T. Washington
• Grandfather Clause
• Alonzo Herndon

a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Disenfranchisement
• Literacy Test
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Atlanta Race Massacre

Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Disenfranchisement
• Literacy Test
• W.E.B. Dubois
• International Cotton Expositions

civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans. Organized the Talented Tenth.

• Disenfranchisement
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Booker T. Washington
• Alonzo Herndon
• Leo Frank

educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans or Blacks should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality.

• Booker T. Washington
• Alonzo Herndon
• Leo Frank
• Tom Watson
• Henry Grady