New South

How did poll taxes keep African Americans from voting?

• Many African Americans could not pay property taxes months in advance, so they could not vote.

• Many black citizens could not pass literacy tests in order to vote

• Many white citizens were already grandfathered in and able to vote

• Many African Americans could not afford to pay a tax before voting, so it kept them from being able to vote.

How did literacy tests disenfranchise black citizens?

• Many white citizens could not read and write, but they were grandfathered in

• Many black citizens were uneducated, and could not pass literacy tests in order to vote

• African Americans struggled to pay poll taxes in order to vote

• The KKK prevented many black citizens from voting by using scare tactics

How did the Grandfather Clause disenfranchise black voters?

• Many African Americans were unable to afford a poll tax in order to vote

• Many black citizens could not pay property taxes months in advance in order to vote

• Black citizens' parents and grandparents were not able to vote before the Civil War; therefore, they wouldn't be able to vote either if they couldn't pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test

• The Grandfather Clause helped black people who could not pass a literacy test or pay a poll tax

States were guaranteed the right to have racial segregation as long as facilities were "separate but equal" because of this court case

• The Dred Scott Case

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Scott v. Sanford

• Worcester v. Georgia

This African American activists believed that black citizens should get an education, demand fair treatment, protest, and speak out against injustice to get equality immediately.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Booker T. Washington

• MLK Jr.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

This African American activists believed that black citizens should get an education or learn an important skill or trade in order to gain full equality over time.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• MLK Jr.

• Robert E. Lee

• Booker T. Washington

Leo Frank was murdered due to this belief...

• Antisemitism (hatred against Jews)

• Racism

• Black Superiority

• Genocide

The ____________ began when white newspapers claimed that Black men assaulted several white women.

• Leo Frank Murder

• Mary Phagan's Death

• 1906 Atlanta Massacre

• Ku Klux Klan

What event from the New South Era proves that discrimination and hate was not only limited to African Americans?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• The Atlanta Race Riot

• Leo Frank's Murder

• 1906 Atlanta Massacre

This important political group promoted the New South and Industrialization in Georgia.

• The Bourbon Triumvirate

• Ku Klux Klan

• Knights of Mary Phagan

• Populist Party