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The New South-Austin

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

After the Civil War ended, who controlled GA?

a)

Republican Party

b)

New South Party

c)

Democratic Party

d)

KKK

2.

Before the Civil War, the South depended on

a)

Agriculture

b)

Industry

c)

Business

d)

Architecture

3.

After the Civil War, the New South depended less on farming and more on

a)

crops

b)

cars

c)

industries

d)

tractors

4.

Which of the following was not one of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

Joseph Brown

c)

Alfred Colquitt

d)

John Gordon

5.

What Georgia leader coined the phrase New South in describing the state?

a)

John Gordon

b)

Joseph E. Brown

c)

Alfred Colquitt

d)

Henry Grady

6.

Wanted to maintain white supremacy and expand GA's economy.

a)

Bourbon Triumvirate

b)

Cotton Expositions

c)

County Unit System

d)

Grandfather Clause

7.

Which description best explains how the Bourbon Triumvirate might have described the New South period?

a)

A time for southerners, both black and white, to come together and work in harmony to rebuild the state’s economic, social, and political systems

b)

A New South Progressive era when farms had to be replaced by business and industry in order for the South to prosper

c)

A blending of the new and the old, keeping old southern traditions like white supremacy while building new traditions around industries to rival the North

d)

A time for social, economic, and political reforms to ease the suffering caused by the war

8.

The new state constitution was under whose leadership?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

Great Britain

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

The Bourbon Triumvirate

9.

The Bourbon Triumvirate believed in

a)

lower taxes

b)

improving working conditions

c)

economic assistance for the poor

d)

expansion of educational opportunities

10.

Which of the BT was a lawyer, a state senator, eventually became chief justice of GA supreme court, a governor, one of the wealthiest men in GA, and a U.S. Senator?

a)

John Gordon

b)

Joseph E. Brown

c)

Alfred Colquitt

d)

Henry Grady

11.

Which of the BT reduced the state debt and brought new industry into the area?

a)

Joseph E. Brown

b)

Alfred H. Colquitt

c)

John B. Gordon

d)

Henry Grady

12.

Which of the following of the BT was a military leader in the war, was involved in a gov't scandal over jobs but was re-elected as governor, and under his reign, a new state constitution was approved?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

John B. Gordon

c)

Joseph E. Brown

d)

Alfred H. Colquitt

13.

Who was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution?

a)

John Gordon

b)

Henry Grady

c)

Joseph E. Brown

d)

Rebecca Lattimer Felton

14.

The Bourbon Triumvirate did NOT support higher

a)

buildings

b)

insurance

c)

taxes

d)

industry

15.

Why did Henry Grady create the International Cotton Exposition?

a)

To show how great the GA cotton crop could be

b)

It proved how well the plantation system worked

c)

To show that GA was ready for industrialization

d)

To create markets for Georgia's farmers

16.

The Populist politician best known for introducing the Rural Free Delivery Bill was

a)

James B. Weaver

b)

Tom Watson

c)

Grover Cleveland

d)

Rebecca Latimer Felton

17.

One of the BT who was originally a civil war general

- became the leader of the KKK

- became a US senator in 1872 → resigned in 1880

- became GA's governor for 2 terms

a)

Joseph E. Brown

b)

John Gordon

c)

Alfred H. Colquitt

d)

Henry Grady

18.

One of the BT who...

went to Princeton

- owned slaves before civil war + was a confederate soldier

- was a methodist minister and taught Sunday school in black churches

- served as GA's 1st democratic governor after reconstruction

a)

Joseph E. Brown

b)

Alfred H. Colquitt

c)

Henry Grady

d)

John Gordon

19.

people's party)

- compromised of farmers and tom watson

- fought to help farmers

- urged farmers to work together for their cause

- challenged the democrats in GA

- threatened for splitting of white vote and to bring in black republicans

a)

Bourbon Triumvirate

b)

KKK

c)

Populists

d)

Democrats

20.

Voting method that gave rural (sparsely populated) areas more power in GA than larger urban counties;

- the candidate that won the most votes won election

- 8 most populated counties received 6 votes; each remains counties received less

- whoever won the most in the county got the entire county's unit votes

- seen as UNFAIR

- eventually ruled against

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Prison Camps

d)

County unit system

21.

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Lugenia Burns Hope

c)

Alfred H. Colquitt

d)

County Unit system

22.

early 1900's; when white people of power tried to block blacks from voting by passing poll taxes that many couldn't afford, and literacy tests when over half of african americans could NOT read

a)

Segregation/Jim Crow Laws

b)

Disenfranchisement of BLacks

c)

Henry Grady & the New South

d)

International Cotton Exposition

23.

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society

a)

Joseph E. Brown

b)

Alfred H. Colquitt

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

WEB DuBois

24.

Trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan

a)

Leo Frank

b)

Henry Grady

c)

Rebecca Felton

d)

Joseph Brown

25.

opposed bourbon democrats

- active in politics (women's suffrage and voting rights, prison reform)

- served as the first woman in congress for only 2 days


a)

Joseph Brown

b)

Mary Phagan

c)

Rebecca Felton

d)

Henry Grady

26.

Racial violence between white and black citizens in 1906; began as a result of false accusations against black citizens (raping and murdering white women) published in the Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution.

- Hoke Smith was governor

- smith appealed to whites

- at least 12 died

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Leo Frank Case

c)

The Populist Party

d)

Atlanta Race Riot