WorksheetsThe New South-Austin
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
After the Civil War ended, who controlled GA?
Republican Party
New South Party
Democratic Party
KKK
Before the Civil War, the South depended on
Agriculture
Industry
Business
Architecture
After the Civil War, the New South depended less on farming and more on
crops
cars
industries
tractors
Which of the following was not one of the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Henry Grady
Joseph Brown
Alfred Colquitt
John Gordon
What Georgia leader coined the phrase New South in describing the state?
John Gordon
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred Colquitt
Henry Grady
Wanted to maintain white supremacy and expand GA's economy.
Bourbon Triumvirate
Cotton Expositions
County Unit System
Grandfather Clause
Which description best explains how the Bourbon Triumvirate might have described the New South period?
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
A New South Progressive era when farms had to be replaced by business and industry in order for the South to prosper
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
A time for social, economic, and political reforms to ease the suffering caused by the war
The new state constitution was under whose leadership?
Henry Grady
Great Britain
Abraham Lincoln
The Bourbon Triumvirate
The Bourbon Triumvirate believed in
lower taxes
improving working conditions
economic assistance for the poor
expansion of educational opportunities
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?
John Gordon
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred Colquitt
Henry Grady
Which of the BT reduced the state debt and brought new industry into the area?
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
John B. Gordon
Henry Grady
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?
Henry Grady
John B. Gordon
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
Who was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution?
John Gordon
Henry Grady
Joseph E. Brown
Rebecca Lattimer Felton
The Bourbon Triumvirate did NOT support higher
buildings
insurance
taxes
industry
Why did Henry Grady create the International Cotton Exposition?
To show how great the GA cotton crop could be
It proved how well the plantation system worked
To show that GA was ready for industrialization
To create markets for Georgia's farmers
The Populist politician best known for introducing the Rural Free Delivery Bill was
James B. Weaver
Tom Watson
Grover Cleveland
Rebecca Latimer Felton
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
Joseph E. Brown
John Gordon
Alfred H. Colquitt
Henry Grady
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
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
Henry Grady
John Gordon
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
Bourbon Triumvirate
KKK
Populists
Democrats
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
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Prison Camps
County unit system
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Lugenia Burns Hope
Alfred H. Colquitt
County Unit system
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
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
Disenfranchisement of BLacks
Henry Grady & the New South
International Cotton Exposition
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
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan
Leo Frank
Henry Grady
Rebecca Felton
Joseph Brown
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
Joseph Brown
Mary Phagan
Rebecca Felton
Henry Grady
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
Jim Crow Laws
Leo Frank Case
The Populist Party
Atlanta Race Riot
