WorksheetsA New Georgia Emerges TEST
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
What is the term we use for the rebuilding of the south?
Reconstruction
Redeeming
Industrialization
Occupation
Which amendment made slavery illegal?
13
14
15
19
Which amendment gave male citizens the right to vote, regardless of color?
13
14
15
19
What political group was in favor of harsh punishments after the war for the south?
radical republicans
radical democrats
republicans
democrats
What are the differences in tenant farmers and sharecroppers?
Tenant farmers had tools and seeds and were able to make a profit, while sharecroppers had to use supplies from the landowner.
Sharecroppers had tools and seeds and were able to make a profit, while tenant farmers used supplies furnished .
Both had the same amount of available resources and both made a good stable living.
Both did not have many resources and stayed in debt.
What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the South?
to prevent people from voting for republicans
to prevent people from voting for democrats
to prevent people from voting at all
to incite violence
What is a "freedman"?
a former slave
a former soldier who received 40 acres and a mule
a tenant farmer who finally bought his own farm
a person who got free public education
What did most freedmen do after the Civil War for work?
Select ALL that apply.
sharecropping
tenant farming
shop keeping
factory work
True or False. Most of Georgia's factories, businesses, and railroads survived the civil war.
True
False
Which crop did the South want to produce after the Civil War?
soy beans
corn
cotton
wheat
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
slash and burn farming
share cropping
rent farming
farm to fork farming
What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?
Free Masons
Ku Klux Klan
Knights of Columbus
Knights of Mary Phagan
After the Civil War there was an effort by whites to maintain _________. Check all that apply
an agrarian economy
the 14th amendment
the Confederacy
rule by the Democratic Party
Why did Sharecropping and tenant farming become the dominant form of agriculture after the Civil War?
many former Confederate soldiers were available to work
the government offered farmers incentives to practice sharecropping
there were many former slaves who needed work and plantation owners who needed labor
people flocked to the south after the war for jobs
These were designed to restrict the rights of freedmen and led to the 14th amendment...
black codes
Jim crow laws
slave codes
white codes
Which statements describes what Confederate soldiers came home to find after the Civil War.
destroyed farms, railroads and cities, leaving many of them poor, homeless, and hungry.
rebuilt cities
factories were being built everywhere.
Whites and blacks were living together peacefully.
What was the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson in the United States?
Many African Americans were unable to vote.
Many African Americans were lynched.
All facilities in the United States were equal.
Segregation was declared legal in the United States.
This is form of violence in which an angry mob kills a person without a trial (usually by hanging).
radical
impeach
lynching
segregation
You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this policy.
Grandfather clause
Confederate code
Ancestor clause
Grandfather code
True or False: Lynching was often used as a way to terrorize people or to punish people for breaking the law.
true
false
What does disfranchisement mean?
to take the right to vote away
To take the right of citizenship away
To take the right to travel within your country away
To take the right of freedom away
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.
The Atlanta International Exposition
The Cotton States and International Exposition
The Atlanta World's Fair
Atlantic States International Exposition
What was the purpose of Tom Watson and the Populists Party?
A political group that legalized segration with Jim Crow laws.
A political group that disfranchised African Americans.
A political group that fought for the rights of poor farmers
A political group that passed laws in the South to segregate restrooms, water fountains, schools, restaurants, and neighborhoods.
What statement describes Jim Crow laws?
Restrooms, water fountains, schools, neighborhoods were segregated by race.
Restrooms, water fountains, schools, neighborhoods were integrated by race.
A Supreme Court decision that made segregation of restrooms, water fountains, schools, and neighborhoods legal.
A Supreme Court decision that made segregation of restrooms, water fountains, schools and neighborhoods illegal.
What two things did Henry Grady promote to improve life in the south?
Rural free delivery and crop rotation
Cotton States Exposition and White Supremacy
Black voting rights and desegregation
planting new crops and the establishment of factories
Name the three men who were the members of the Bourbon Triumvirate.
Colquitt, Brown, and Gordon
Brown, Cobb, and Gordon
Washington, Colquitt, and DuBois
Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller
Even though there was no real evidence and he did not receive a fair trial, what was the outcome of the Leo Frank trial?
The case was dismissed
Leo Frank was pronounced innocent
Leo Frank was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death.
Leo Frank was pronounced guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison.
What organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois in 1909 and promoted equality for African-Americans?
SNCC
NAACP
SCLC
CORE
The beginning of the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915 coincided with which of these?
Lincoln's election
the burning of Atlanta
the lynching of Leo Frank
passage of the 14th amendment
As a Populist Georgia politician, Tom Watson fought for the rights of (H7a)
Jews.
African Americans
white farmers
Catholic immigrants
What would NOT be an example of a Jim Crow Law? Check all that apply.
blacks sitting in the balcony of a theater
having to pay a tax to vote because you are black
losing your citizenship because you were born into slavery
a whites only railroad car
Which 2 were reminders of the devastation left by the Civil War in Georgia
destroyed railroads
burned plantations
chain gangs
Yankee soldiers
Georgia"s best known poet:
Sidney Lanier
Sinclair Lewis
Robert Frost
Eudora Welty
Work crews made up of convicts who lived in horrible conditions were called:
chain gangs
labor camps
farm camps
press gangs
In the early 1900's, textile mills primarily employed _________________.
white women
veterans
Children
White men
Author of the Uncle Remus stories which featured Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear and were based on African folktales.
"Uncle" Joe Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
John Pemberton
Henry W Grady
Juliette Gordon Lowe founded the
Ku Klux Klan
Girl Scouts
Coca Cola Company
Varsity Restaurant
This amendment allowed suffrage for women in the US:
15
14
18
19
Civil War hero who was elected President of the US in 1868
U.S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
John Garfield
John B. Gordon
This educational facility provided African Americans an opportunity to learn, technology, agriculture and trades.
Berry College
Moorehouse College
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College
Tuskegee Institute
In 1902, ___________ began a school near Rome Georgia which gave underprivileged children from the nearby mountains a chance to work and earn an education.
Booker T Washington
Martha Berry
Tom Watson
Abraham Baldwin
poor whites who worked in textile mills
crackers
red necks
white trash
croppers
Henry W. Grady called his idea of a modern, industrialized region the “________________________.”
Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
New Deal
New South
New Hope
