GA Unit 9 Vocabulary Quiz

What is the “New South”?

• A plan to bring slavery back

• A period of Southern growth with more industry and business after the Civil War

• A new state created after Reconstruction

• A law that ended voting rights

What was the “Bourbon Triumvirate”?

• A group of Georgia leaders who controlled politics and supported business growth

• A group of Union generals

• A new political party started by farmers

• A group that ended segregation

Who was Henry Grady?

• A Georgia newspaper editor who promoted the “New South”

• A Supreme Court judge

• A Populist farmer leader

• A civil rights leader from the 1960s

What was the International Cotton Exposition?

• A large event in Atlanta that showed off industry and new technology

• A war fought over cotton

• A law that limited cotton farming

• A Supreme Court case

Who was Tom Watson?

• A leader connected to the Populist movement in Georgia

• A governor who ended segregation

• A leader of the Bourbon Triumvirate

• A Civil War general

What were the Populists?

• A political group that supported farmers and poor workers

• A group that supported big banks only

• A group that created Jim Crow Laws

• A group of Civil Rights activists in the 1960s

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that required racial segregation

• Laws that ended discrimination

• Laws that expanded voting rights

• Laws that protected workers’ pay

What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

• A Supreme Court case that supported segregation as “separate but equal”

• A law that ended segregation

• A protest in Atlanta

• A political party

What is disenfranchisement?

• Taking away someone’s right to vote

• Giving someone the right to vote

• Moving to a new state

• Joining the military

What was the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre?

• A violent attack on African Americans in Atlanta

• A peaceful voting rights march

• A cotton factory fire

• A court case about segregation