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WorksheetsNew South Practice Assessment
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
During the late 1800's and early 1900's, what were the laws passed to establish separate-but-equal facilities for different races?
Discrimination Laws
Slave Codes
Separation Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Which of the following BEST describes Henry Grady's vision of The New South?
It was becoming more industrial, was a great place for Northern industrialists to invest their money, and race relations were much improved.
The South was maintaining "Old Southern traditions" like discrimination against African Americans.
Farmers were the most important people in Georgia and politically, farmers were the people who "New South" politicians intended to reach.
Southerners should ignore the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and should encourage everyone to ignore the fact that they had lost the Civil War.
SELECT FOUR: Which of the following were used to restrict the voting rights of African American's in Georgia?
Poll taxes
Grandfather clause
Literacy tests
Atlanta Compromise Speech
White Primaries
Which U.S. Supreme Court case allowed "separate-but-equal" facilities to be legal and acceptable?
Franklin vs Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson
Worcester vs Georgia
Jim Crow vs Georgia
What was the MAIN purpose of the International Cotton Exposition?
To showcase Georgia's progress since the Civil War and promote investment in Georgia's new industries.
To build new roads for mail delivery to rural farmers.
To rally support for the Convict Lease System.
To have participants listen to speeches by Henry Grady and Booker T. Washington.
Which of the following statements is true about the Grandfather Clause?
If your grandfather graduated from college, then you were eligible to vote.
If your grandfather gave you permission to vote, you were eligible to vote.
If your grandfather had voted in 1867, then you were eligible to vote no matter what the new laws said regarding "literacy."
If your grandfather was a Civil War veteran, then you were eligible to vote.
What were the Bourbon Triumvirate criticized for?
They did not support a strong public school system or government services for the poor, and encouraged discrimination against African Americans.
Nobody criticized them because they were such great guys, helping everyone around them while allowing their own businesses to suffer.
White Georgians criticized them for openly supporting African American civil and economic rights.
Large businesses criticized them for their support of small businesses and farms.
These events intended to showcase the New Atlanta to possible northern investors. The intent was to get rich northerners to see that Georgia had changed, and was ”The New South!”
The opening of the Atlanta Art Exhibit in Midtown
The International Cotton Expositions
The Georgia/Georgia Tech annual football game
The merging of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper with the Atlanta Journal, creating the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution," or the AJC
W.E.B. DuBois would most likely support which of the following?
Religious equality
Economic independence will lead to equality
Immediate political and social equality
Separate-but-equal facilities
Which man received the greatest support from Georgia's White farmers due to his populist beliefs ?
Henry Grady
Leo Frank
John B. Gordon
Tom Watson
Who could have been most likely overheard saying, "Hard work and entrepreneurship will take you places you have never dreamed of. I started with nothing and am truly living the American dream."?
Henry Grady
Tom Watson
Joseph E. Brown
Alonzo Herndon
What was the immediate cause of the 1906 race riot?
The Bourbon Triumvirate were dethroned by a violent mob of antisemitic citizens.
False news articles about violent crimes committed by black men in a city already on edge due to racial tension.
The Leo Frank trial was causing thousands of citizens to skip work and roam the streets in an effort to fix Atlanta's problems.
The International Cotton Exposition had the complete opposite effect from what they intended.
Which group of people would have been most likely to say the following quote: "We are truly the People's Party! We want fair working hours, minimum wage, and Tom Watson is the man!"?
white supremacists
suffragists
populists
republicans
Who might have ended their speech with the following statement, "We have to change with the times or we will never recover from the Civil War. We need to move on from the Old South and embrace the New South, with improved racial relations and stronger business ties with the industrial north. New South! New South! New South! Rah rah rah!!!!!!"?
Henry Grady
John B. Gordon
Alfred Colquitt
Tom Watson
Which of the following viewpoints might Booker T. Washington disagree with?
Civil rights should be achieved immediately.
Economic independence and hard work would result in equality and civil rights.
Blacks and whites should work together to improve Georgia's economy.
Vocational or technical education was essential for African Americans who sought equality.
Which world view contributed to Leo Frank being falsely convicted of murder?
sectionalism
terrorism
patriotism
antisemitism
Who believed social & political rights needed to be achieved before economic equality could happen?
W. E. B. DuBois
Henry Grady
Booker T. Washington
Joseph E. Brown
Alonzo Herndon is praised for doing which of the following?
Delivering the Atlanta Compromise Speech, encouraging African Americans to cooperate economically with the White population around the south.
Creating Neighborhood Unions, which helped African Americans to organize and fight.
Helping establish the NAACP, thus ensuring that all African Americans would gain equal civil rights immediately.
Creating the Crystal Palace barber shop, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and becoming one of the wealthiest African Americans in his time.
Why was Tom Watson's Rural Free Delivery bill an important improvement in Georgia?
It allowed prisoners to be released from prison to deliver mail to rural farmers
It allowed the International Cotton Exposition to come to Georgia
It forced rural farmers to go into town to get their mail
It led to improved infrastructure like roads and bridges, making rural farmers less isolated from city life
