Unit 6: New South Study Guide

Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race.

• Jim Crow

• Henry Grady

• Leo Frank

• Atlanta Race Massacre

Often called the "Spokesman of the New South," he used his position as editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper to advocate northern investment in the south and continued industrialization throughout the region.

• Henry Grady

• International Cotton Exposition

• Jim Crow

• Leo Frank

In late September of 1906, Georgia's capital city was wracked by this event which saw dozens of African American citizens killed and many black-owned stores destroyed by mobs of white citizens.

• Atlanta Race Massacre

• Jim Crow

• Leo Frank

• Henry Grady

This event in 1881 was held in Oglethorpe Park in Atlanta and showed off the South's most prominent agricultural product to exhibitors from around the world.

• International Cotton Exposition

• Atlanta Race Massacre

• Leo Frank

• Henry Grady

In a fit of anti-Semitic violence, this man was lynched by a mob in Marietta, Georgia, in 1915 after he was accused of assaulting and killing 13-year-old Mary Phagan.

• Leo Frank

• Atlanta Race Massacre

• Jim Crow

• Henry Grady

As a Populist Georgia politician, Tom Watson would have been MOST likely to support causes of

• bankers

• industrialists

• farmers and the working class

• African American and immigrants

Which of the following is the BEST example of a similarity between the "New South" and the South before the Civil War?

• There was widespread racial inequality and discrimination

• Government leaders promoted the expansion of cotton farming

• The Republican Party held the power in state and local governments

• The state governments supported the expansion of industry and the railroads

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

• To ensure segregation throughout Georgia

• To promote the equal rights of African Americans in Georgia

• To promote industrial growth in Georgia

• To expand Georgia's railroad system

Which of these BEST describes the purpose of the Rural Free Delivery Act of 1893?

• to provide food delivery to people at no extra cost

• to provide free mail service to isolated areas of the country

• to provide free medical care to mothers living in rural areas of the United States

• to provide newspaper and radio service to people in rural areas at no direct cost to them

Which of the BEST describes the role played by Henry Grady in the late-1800s?

• newspaper editor

• state politician

• United States Senator

• former Confederate general