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New South Practice Test

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Founder of the NAACP. believed more in taking political and legal action to gain equality.

a)

Leo Frank

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B, DuBois

d)

Henry Grady

2.

Black educator who created the Tuskegee Institute. He wanted blacks to learn a skill and become more self-sufficient, which would lead to equality

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Alexander Stephens

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Henry Grady

3.

Former slave who became president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company – great businessman, entrepreneur

a)

Tom Watson

b)

Henry Grady

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Alonzo Herndon

4.

Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, coined the phrase "New South".

a)

Alexander Stephens

b)

Tom Watson

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Henry Grady

5.

Enforced segregation in public places

a)

suffrage

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

disfranchisement

d)

NAACP

6.

Supreme Court decision for "separate but equal"

a)

Plessy vs. Fergusen

b)

Jim Crow

c)

NAACP

d)

disfranchisement

7.

Leader of the Populist Party (The People’s Party), he started the Rural Free Delivery (RFD) for mail.

a)

Tom Watson

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Henry Grady

d)

Alonzo Herndon

8.

In response to the Jim Crow Laws and to help African Americans with legal issues

a)

disfranchisement

b)

Primary Election

c)

NAACP

d)

segregation

9.

A statewide election held by a political party to choose its candidates for the general election.

a)

Secondary Election

b)

Primary Election

c)

disfranchisement

d)

suffrage

10.

The movement to give women the right to vote

a)

disfranchisement

b)

NAACP

c)

14th Amendment

d)

suffrage

11.

The belief that whites are superior and should be in control of society and government

a)

white supremacy

b)

segregation

c)

Jim Crow

d)

disfranchisement

12.

1) Keeping blacks and whites apart in public places_ ______________, AND 2) taking away the right to vote_________

a)

segregation, disfranchisement

b)

white supremacy, segregation

c)

white supremacy, disfranchisement

d)

segregation, white supremacy

13.

The Great Migration was due to ___________.

a)

Whites and African Americans moving to the cities for industrial jobs

b)

African Americans leaving because of violence in the early 1900's

c)

People from the North coming in to buy up land in the South

d)

Defeated Confederates moving to Great Britain.

14.

Because the Populists called on black farmers and white farmers to work together, which caused the Democrats to have fear of “black rule", this was the result.

a)

The Populists supported industrial workers at the expense of farmers.

b)

Georgia had changed from an agricultural state to an industrial state.

c)

The Bourbon Triumvirate offered better social reform ideas.

d)

The Populist Party of the 1890's fail to gain much support in the South

15.

The idea behind the Atlanta Compromise speec (Booker T. Washington) was

a)

agreement that facilities for blacks and whites would be separate but equal.

b)

social and political equality would come only after blacks learned a skill and became self sufficient.

c)

agreement between white black leaders in Atlanta to stop the lynchings and race riots

d)

idea that blacks should have the same privileges and rights as any American citizen.

16.

An example of the violence by whites against black would be

a)

NAACP

b)

The Leo Frank case

c)

The Atlanta Race Riots

d)

The Atlanta Compromise

17.

To encourage business to build industries in the state. this was held.

a)

1906 Georgia State Fair

b)

The Populist Party

c)

Georgia’s great cotton expositions

d)

The Atlanta Race Riots

18.

True or False: After the Civil War, most people who sharecropped remained in a cycle of poverty.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

A legal case that caused Southern Jewish people fear until the civil rights laws.

a)

Plessy vs. Fergusen

b)

Leo Frank Case

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Atlanta Race Riots

20.

The Supreme Court ruling that permitted segregation for 60 years.

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

The 15th Amendment

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The Leo Frank case

21.

Which of the following strategies were used to disenfranchise black Georgians in the early 1900's? Multiple answers on this one!

a)

poll tax

b)

literacy test

c)

white primary

d)

Grandfather Clause

22.

Southern Democrat supporters of the New South after the Civil War (during Reconstruction)

a)

Populist Party

b)

Bourbon Triumvirate

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

founders of the Ku Klux Klan

23.

Henry Grady promoted this when he talked about the "New South"

a)

increasing manufacturing and industrialization by using local resources

b)

free college tuition

c)

free medical care for all

d)

refusal to trade with the North

24.

Which names below were the members of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

Alfred Colquitt

b)

Joseph E. Brown

c)

Alonzo Herndon

d)

John Gordon