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New South / WWI

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What laws are associated with the term "separate but equal"? 
a)
black codes
b)
jim crow
c)
civil rights act
d)
equal facilities law
2.
What event would you associate with the legal segregation of public schools?
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Jim Crow
c)
Reconstruction act
d)
Atlanta Race Riot
3.
What is it called when you would withhold the rights of citizens?
a)
amnesty
b)
disenfranchisement
c)
libel
d)
credit
4.

Which country was NOT a part of the Allied Powers

a)

Russia

b)

Belgium

c)

Bulgaria

d)

France

5.

What was the main cause of the race riot in Atlanta?

a)

tensions from a political election

b)

Outrage over reports of white women being attacked

c)

protests about an increase of black clubs in Atlanta

d)

all of the above

6.
How long did the Atlanta race riot last?
a)
1 day
b)
2 days
c)
3 days
d)
a week
7.
Who was the Jewish factory owner that was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan? 
a)
Otto Frank
b)
Ben Shapiro
c)
Leo Frank
d)
Ben Stein
8.
What happened to the man who was convicted of killing Mary Phagan?
a)
sentenced to the death penalty
b)
Was executed by a lynch mob
c)
found not guilty based on lack of evidence
d)
Was sent back to New York
9.
What would be an example of a Jim Crow Law?
a)
a whites only restaurant
b)
having to pay a tax to vote because you are black
c)
losing your citizenship because you were born into slavery
d)
not being allowed work based on your age
10.
Writer for the Atlanta Journal and was a US Senator for one day at age 87. 
a)
Alexander Stephens
b)
Henry Grady
c)
Lugenia Burns Hope
d)
Rebecca Latimer Felton
11.
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
a)
Alonzo Herndon
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Leo Frank
d)
Booker T. Washington
12.
Believed African Americans should have equal access to everything whites had immediately. 
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
13.
First black president of Morehouse College.
a)
John Hope
b)
Henry Grady
c)
Samuel Worcester
d)
Frederick Douglas
14.
Spent most of her life working to improve the African-American communities.
a)
Clara Barton
b)
Lugenia Burns Hope
c)
Rebecca Latimer Felton
d)
Eleonor Roosevelt 
15.
Who was born into slavery and then became one of Atlanta's most prominent businessmen?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
Alonzo Herndon
c)
John B. Gordon
d)
W.E.B. DuBois
16.
Which of the following is imperialism?
a)
belief that your country is superior to other countries
b)
belief that you should build up the military
c)
extending a country’s power throughout the world
d)
policy of remaining apart from affairs of other countries
17.
What country assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
a)
Austria-Hungary
b)
Germany
c)
Belgium
d)
Serbia
18.
What was the policy of the United States throughout most of the war?
a)
militarism
b)
imperialism
c)
nationalism
d)
isolationism 
19.
Which of the following was a way in which Georgia did NOT help in the war effort?
a)
produced rubber for tires in factories
b)
used cotton mills for military uniforms
c)
held training camps in various Georgia cities
d)
Civilians saved and rationed supplies for war
20.
What were the years of WWI?
a)
1914-1917
b)
1913-1918
c)
1917-1918
d)
1914-1918