New South

Booker T. Washington was best known for being _________________.

• one of the founders of the NAACP

• the founder of the Tuskegee Institute

• one of the designers of Washington, D.C

• the first African American on the Supreme Court

Who is being described:

Historian, civil rights activist, author 

First African American to earn a PhD from Harvard

Co-founder of NAACP in 1909

• Fredrick Douglas

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

• W.E.B. DuBois

What was the impact of literacy tests and poll taxes in Georgia?

• They kept Blacks and poor whites from voting

• They started a migration of Black urban areas

• They cause Black and poor whites to work together

• They made elections in the South fairer for everyone

The following events were the outcome of a historic event event in Georgia that had a lasting effect on race relations in the state. What is the event being described?

Black Atlantans saw businesses and people leave their communities 

More restrictions on black suffrage

Passage of Georgia's Prohibition Laws

• Lynching of Leo Frank

• The International Cotton Exposition

• Atlanta Race Riot

• Sherman's March to the Sea

In the case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) the United States Supreme Court determined that segregation was legal 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 must be of equal quality

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

• Plessy Laws

• Disenfranchisment Laws

• Populist Party Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

Which of the following statements BEST describes the "Bourbon Triumvirate"?

• Newspaper editors who wrote opnion articles in favor of industrial growth in Georgia

• Republicans who governed the South during Reconstruction

• Former slaves who served the state legislature during Reconstruction

• Southern Democrats who dominated Georgia politics during the late 1800's for about 20 years

The following describes:

U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate

Rural Free Delivery System

Leader of the Populist Party 

• Booker T. Washington

• Alonzo Herndon

• Leo Frank

• Tom Watson