Georgia Studies - WW1 & The New South

What group was supported by Tom Watson, a Georgia Populist?

• farmers
• miners
• mill workers
• railroad workers

What was Tom Watson’s greatest accomplishment?

• voting bill for women
• the Rural Free Delivery bill
• a bill to provide meat inspections
• a bill to increase the minimum wage

What BEST describes the Bourbon Triumvirate?

• It was a group of university educators who supported New South programs.
• It was an assembly of African American politicians running for political office.
• It was a trio of GA Democrats that controlled the Georgia state government.
• It was a meeting of white and black farmers pushing for political reform.

The ____ Amendment officially gave all women the right to vote.

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

Which reform was NOT supported by the Populist party?

• 8-hour workday
• increasing tariffs
• graduated income tax
• government ownership of railroads

What was a positive aspect of the county unit system?

• It was easy to buy votes.
• It allowed less populated areas to have the same political power as larger populated areas.
• It allowed people to be elected without a majority of the popular vote.
• It was difficult to administer.

What did the US Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Blacks could be denied the right to vote
• Segregated facilities must be equal
• Blacks and whites were equal
• Schools must be integrated

Plessy v. Ferguson gave states the right to promote

• equal rights
• segregation
• terrorist attacks
• voting rights for blacks

How did southern states limit the rights of African-Americans after the end of Reconstruction?

• redrawing state boundaries
• passing Jim Crow laws
• educating illiterate whites
• hosting cotton expositions

Who was Homer Plessy?

• governor of GA during Reconstruction
• member of the KKK who organized race riots in the late 1800s
• a lawmaker who helped draft the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
• an African American who refused to move to a segregated railway car