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A New Georgia Emerges TEST

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the term we use for the rebuilding of the south?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Redeeming

c)

Industrialization

d)

Occupation

2.

Which amendment made slavery illegal?

a)

13

b)

14

c)

15

d)

19

3.

Which amendment gave male citizens the right to vote, regardless of color?

a)

13

b)

14

c)

15

d)

19

4.

What political group was in favor of harsh punishments after the war for the south?

a)

radical republicans

b)

radical democrats

c)

republicans

d)

democrats

5.

What are the differences in tenant farmers and sharecroppers?

a)

Tenant farmers had tools and seeds and were able to make a profit, while sharecroppers had to use supplies from the landowner.

b)

Sharecroppers had tools and seeds and were able to make a profit, while tenant farmers used supplies furnished .

c)

Both had the same amount of available resources and both made a good stable living.

d)

Both did not have many resources and stayed in debt.

6.

What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the South?

a)

to prevent people from voting for republicans

b)

to prevent people from voting for democrats

c)

to prevent people from voting at all

d)

to incite violence

7.

What is a "freedman"?

a)

a former slave

b)

a former soldier who received 40 acres and a mule

c)

a tenant farmer who finally bought his own farm

d)

a person who got free public education

8.

What did most freedmen do after the Civil War for work?


Select ALL that apply.

a)

sharecropping

b)

tenant farming

c)

shop keeping

d)

factory work

9.

True or False. Most of Georgia's factories, businesses, and railroads survived the civil war.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which crop did the South want to produce after the Civil War?

a)

soy beans

b)

corn

c)

cotton

d)

wheat

11.

This system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced. It was called

a)

slash and burn farming

b)

share cropping

c)

rent farming

d)

farm to fork farming

12.

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

a)

Free Masons

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Knights of Columbus

d)

Knights of Mary Phagan

13.

After the Civil War there was an effort by whites to maintain _________. Check all that apply

a)

an agrarian economy

b)

the 14th amendment

c)

the Confederacy

d)

rule by the Democratic Party

14.

Why did Sharecropping and tenant farming become the dominant form of agriculture after the Civil War?

a)

many former Confederate soldiers were available to work

b)

the government offered farmers incentives to practice sharecropping

c)

there were many former slaves who needed work and plantation owners who needed labor

d)

people flocked to the south after the war for jobs

15.

These were designed to restrict the rights of freedmen and led to the 14th amendment...

a)

black codes

b)

Jim crow laws

c)

slave codes

d)

white codes

16.

Which statements describes what Confederate soldiers came home to find after the Civil War.

a)

destroyed farms, railroads and cities, leaving many of them poor, homeless, and hungry.

b)

rebuilt cities

c)

factories were being built everywhere.

d)

Whites and blacks were living together peacefully.

17.
What is "segregation"
a)
Separation of the races
b)
Creating government amendments
c)
The 13th Amendment
d)
Congressional Reconstruction
18.

What was the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson in the United States?

a)

Many African Americans were unable to vote.

b)

Many African Americans were lynched.

c)

All facilities in the United States were equal.

d)

Segregation was declared legal in the United States.

19.

This is form of violence in which an angry mob kills a person without a trial (usually by hanging).

a)

radical

b)

impeach

c)

lynching

d)

segregation

20.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this policy.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Confederate code

c)

Ancestor clause

d)

Grandfather code

21.

True or False: Lynching was often used as a way to terrorize people or to punish people for breaking the law.

a)

true

b)

false

22.
Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as
a)
Scalawags
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Sharecroppers
23.
Who was Henry Grady?
a)
an educator and reformer and believed African Americans should pursue education and the development of skills and a trade
b)
An American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist who felt African Americans should have their civil rights immediately
c)
A Jewish northerner who supervised the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta
d)
Editor of the Atlanta Constitution who coined the phrase "The New South." He argued for an industrialized South and more diverse agricultural techniques.
24.
Which of the following was a prominent populist in Georgia?
a)
Thomas (Tom) Watson
b)
John Gordon
c)
Henry Grady
d)
Alonzo Herdon
25.

What does disfranchisement mean?

a)

to take the right to vote away

b)

To take the right of citizenship away

c)

To take the right to travel within your country away

d)

To take the right of freedom away

26.

This event was held in Atlanta (1881 and 1895) and was created to show the economic recovery of the South and showcase Atlanta as a place for northerners to invest money and help increase industry.

a)

The Atlanta International Exposition

b)

The Cotton States and International Exposition

c)

The Atlanta World's Fair

d)

Atlantic States International Exposition

27.
Who was Leo Frank?
a)
An African American civil rights leader, writer, historian and sociologist.
b)
An educator and reformer, and president of the Tuskegee Institute
c)
An African American businessman who was a barber, business owner and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
d)
A northern, Jewish businessman who was placed on trial for murdering Mary Phagan, a 13 year old girl who worked in the factory he managed.
28.

What was the purpose of Tom Watson and the Populists Party?

a)

A political group that legalized segration with Jim Crow laws.

b)

A political group that disfranchised African Americans.

c)

A political group that fought for the rights of poor farmers

d)

A political group that passed laws in the South to segregate restrooms, water fountains, schools, restaurants, and neighborhoods.

29.

What statement describes Jim Crow laws?

a)

Restrooms, water fountains, schools, neighborhoods were segregated by race.

b)

Restrooms, water fountains, schools, neighborhoods were integrated by race.

c)

A Supreme Court decision that made segregation of restrooms, water fountains, schools, and neighborhoods legal.

d)

A Supreme Court decision that made segregation of restrooms, water fountains, schools and neighborhoods illegal.

30.
What is antisemitism?
a)
Prejudice and discrimination against African Americans.
b)
Prejudice and discrimination against Jews.
c)
Taking the right to vote away from Jews.
d)
Taking the right to vote away from African Americans.
31.
 What group of three men supported the New South movement and dominated Georgia politics in the late 1800’s?  
a)
Bourbon Triumvirate
b)
Atlanta Triumvirate
c)
Populist Party
d)
Farmers Alliance
32.

What two things did Henry Grady promote to improve life in the south?

a)

Rural free delivery and crop rotation

b)

Cotton States Exposition and White Supremacy

c)

Black voting rights and desegregation

d)

planting new crops and the establishment of factories

33.

Name the three men who were the members of the Bourbon Triumvirate.

a)

Colquitt, Brown, and Gordon

b)

Brown, Cobb, and Gordon

c)

Washington, Colquitt, and DuBois

d)

Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller

34.

Even though there was no real evidence and he did not receive a fair trial, what was the outcome of the Leo Frank trial?

a)

The case was dismissed

b)

Leo Frank was pronounced innocent

c)

Leo Frank was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death.

d)

Leo Frank was pronounced guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison.

35.

What organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois in 1909 and promoted equality for African-Americans?

a)

SNCC

b)

NAACP

c)

SCLC

d)

CORE

36.

The beginning of the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915 coincided with which of these?

a)

Lincoln's election

b)

the burning of Atlanta

c)

the lynching of Leo Frank

d)

passage of the 14th amendment

37.

As a Populist Georgia politician, Tom Watson fought for the rights of (H7a)

a)

Jews.

b)

African Americans

c)

white farmers

d)

Catholic immigrants

38.

What would NOT be an example of a Jim Crow Law? Check all that apply.

a)

blacks sitting in the balcony of a theater

b)

having to pay a tax to vote because you are black

c)

losing your citizenship because you were born into slavery

d)

a whites only railroad car

39.

Which 2 were reminders of the devastation left by the Civil War in Georgia

a)

destroyed railroads

b)

burned plantations

c)

chain gangs

d)

Yankee soldiers

40.

Georgia"s best known poet:

a)

Sidney Lanier

b)

Sinclair Lewis

c)

Robert Frost

d)

Eudora Welty

41.

Work crews made up of convicts who lived in horrible conditions were called:

a)

chain gangs

b)

labor camps

c)

farm camps

d)

press gangs

42.

In the early 1900's, textile mills primarily employed _________________.

a)

white women

b)

veterans

c)

Children

d)

White men

43.

Author of the Uncle Remus stories which featured Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear and were based on African folktales.

a)

"Uncle" Joe Remus

b)

Joel Chandler Harris

c)

John Pemberton

d)

Henry W Grady

44.

Juliette Gordon Lowe founded the

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Girl Scouts

c)

Coca Cola Company

d)

Varsity Restaurant

45.

This amendment allowed suffrage for women in the US:

a)

15

b)

14

c)

18

d)

19

46.

Civil War hero who was elected President of the US in 1868

a)

U.S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

John Garfield

d)

John B. Gordon

47.

This educational facility provided African Americans an opportunity to learn, technology, agriculture and trades.

a)

Berry College

b)

Moorehouse College

c)

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College

d)

Tuskegee Institute

48.

In 1902, ___________ began a school near Rome Georgia which gave underprivileged children from the nearby mountains a chance to work and earn an education.

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Martha Berry

c)

Tom Watson

d)

Abraham Baldwin

49.

poor whites who worked in textile mills

a)

crackers

b)

red necks

c)

white trash

d)

croppers

50.

Henry W. Grady called his idea of a modern, industrialized region the “________________________.”

a)

Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

b)

New Deal

c)

New South

d)

New Hope