WorksheetsSS8H7
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 1mins
What industrial fair highlighted the growth and improvements of Georgia’s textile industry?
International Cotton Exposititon
Cotton Warehouse
Cotton Pickin Fair
Georgia State Fair
Which Georgia senator argued for farmers’ rights, helped pass the Rural Free Delivery Bill, and became the leader of the Populist Party?
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Tom Watson
John Gordon
Booker T. Washington
What set of laws were passed to segregate the South?
Jim Crow Laws
Separation Laws
Black Codes
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
When did the New South movement occur?
after World War I
During the Depression
During the late 1800s, after Reconstruction
Before Reconstruction
Who was a writer and editor of the Atlanta Constitution and the main spokesman for the New South movement?
John Pemberton
Tom Watson
Sidney Lanier
Henry Grady
For which newspaper was Henry Grady the editor?
Atlanta Constitution
Newman Times Herald
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Times
What crop dominated Georgia's agriculture from the early 1800s until the 1920s?
Tobacco
Rice
Cotton
Silk
What were Jim Crow Laws?
They set up schools for blacks.
They protected the civil rights of blacks.
They ended child labor.
They enforced segregation in public places.
Which answer choice BEST describes the practice shown in this illustration?
racial violence
Jim Crow Laws
disenfranchisement
intergration
This group made a living by renting land, seed, tools and other necessities from a landlord in exchange for a portion of the harvest.
sharecroppers
tenant farmers
slaves
chain gangs
False newspaper reports about black on white violence in Atlanta led to what issue in September of 1907?
Atlanta Race Riot
Leo Frank Trial
International Cotton Exposition
March on Washington
The organization that was started in the South to oppose Black progress was the:
Freedmen's Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Scalawags of the South
Radical Republicans
The organization that created schools so Blacks in the South could get educated was the:
tenant farms
Reconstruction colleges
carpetbagging
Freedmen's Bureau
Separation of the races in the South was known as:
differentiation
integration
Sharecropping
Segregation
Which amendments to the US Constitution guaranteed African-American males the right to vote?
13th
14th
15th
Which amendments to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
As a leader of the New South movement, what did Henry Grady support?
blacks leaving the South to work in the North
southerners growing more cotton for export
northern investment in southern industry
southern investment in northern factories
What was the main purpose of the International Cotton Expositions that were held in Atlanta?
to showcase the cotton gin
bring visitors to Georgia
help farmers find better ways to grow cotton
showcase the industries of the New South
The immediate cause of the riot that occurred in Atlanta in 1906 was
the killing of a black family.
blacks being denied the right to vote.
the election of Hoke Smith as governor.
news articles of black violence among whites.
The murder trial of Leo Frank resulted in a(n)
mistrial.
acquittal.
hung jury.
death sentence.
According to Plessy v. Ferguson, what Constitutional amendment was NOT violated by establishing "separate but equal" facilities?
fifteenth
sixteenth
thirteenth
fourteenth
Who coined the term “New South”?
Henry Grady
Joseph Colquitt
Booker T. Washington
John Gordon
Who made up the Populist party?
Democrats
Republicans
sharecroppers
farmers
What made Atlanta a great location to serve as Georgia's capital city?
being able to ship goods on the Chattahoochee River
access to railroad lines
the Atlantic Ocean
miles of Interstate Highways
