The Fast and the Curious 7 (AKS 37)

What was the Bourbon Triumvirate?

• Three powerful women in the Senate

• Three powerful state leaders that believed axes should be lowered, more industry in the South, and power should be restored to the Republicans, and believed in White Supremacy.

• Three democratic state leaders that believed taxes should be lowered, more industry in the South, wanted to develop railroads, and power should be restored to the Democrats, and believed in White Supremacy.

The men that made up the Bourbon Triumvirate were:

• Joseph Brown, Alonzo Herndon, and Booker T. Washington

• Alfred Brown, John B. Gordon, and Henry Grady

• Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, Henry Grady, and John B. Gordon

• Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon

Who was Henry Grady and what did he do?

• A black man that believed in the people and he has a hospital named after him in Atlanta.

• He was the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, born in Athens, wanted to industrialize the South, and he believed in diversifying agriculture.

• A successful politician, Governor of GA during the Civil War, and U.S. Senator from GA

• A member of the Bourbon Triumvirate who supported desegregation.

Who was Tom Watson?

• Supported the farmers = against the growth of industry in the South, Concerned for the African American farmer, 1882 - Elected to the Georgia General Assembly

• Ran for governor in 1882, supported industry over farming, and was an Indian man

• He was living on Cherokee land and refused to leave

True or False. The Atlanta Cotton Expo:

•Promoted industry

•Events were effective

•Displayed Atlanta’s “rise from the ashes”

•Promoted Atlanta as the leading city of the South

• True

• False

Under the Jim Crow Laws...

• Blacks could not vote or serve on juries, but they could vote, no segregation

• Blacks could be part of a jury for trial and had the same type of facilities as whites

• Nothing happened except the crows left.

• Black US citizens were denied many basic rights and SEGREGATION (separation of the races) became acceptable

What was Plessy v. Ferguson about?

• Homer Plessy, who was 1/2 black was arrested.

• Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black, was arrested for sitting at a white section in a railcar.

• Homer Plessy was a white man who sued Ferguson for not paying poll taxes.

Examples of Disenfranchisement:

• Voter Registration

• Poll taxes

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause

• 15th Amendment

A Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling themselves "the Knights of Mary Phagan" took Frank out of his prison cell and lynched him in Marietta, Georgia.

• Leo Frank Case

• Disenfranchisement

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for Blacks

• Leo Frank

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Alonzo Herndon