WorksheetsUnit 5: The New South Review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 14mins
Why was the Bourbon Triumvirate important to Georgia?
They fought to secure rights for the hard working farmers.
They helped bring industry to Georgia.
They assured blacks received equal rights.
They protected Georgia from the railroad industry.
This event promoted Atlanta's industrial capabilities and accomplishments, attracted Northern investments into the city and region, and provided jobs for former slaves and gave them opportunities to sell their cotton.
Atlanta Cotton Exposition
The 1996 Olympics
The Atlanta Race of 1906
None of the above
Tom Watson was a populist politician who fought for the rights of
bakers and lawyers
farmers
industrialists
immigrants and northerners
What was the story of the Leo Frank case?
Leo Frank, an African American man, was accused of murdering a young girl and was found guilty with little or no evidence.
Jim Conley, an African American man, was accused of murdering Leo Frank and was found guilty with little or no evidence. He was later kidnapped and lynched.
Leo Frank, a Jewish man, was accused of murdering a young girl and was found guilty with little or no evidence.
Leo Frank, a white Southerner, was accused of murdering a young girl and was found innocent after trial.
Newspapers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women
White mobs killed and wounded dozens of blacks
White mobs inflicted substantial property damage in Atlanta
Which event ended up leading to more segregation between whites and blacks?
Leo Frank Case
1906 Atlanta Riot
Atlanta Compromise
New South Movement
The southern states passed a variety of laws legalizing racial segregation and mandating separate public facilities known as ______.
White Supremacy Laws
Plessy Laws
Disenfranchisement Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Which U.S. Supreme Court case allowed "separate-but-equal" facilities to be legal and acceptable?
Franklin vs Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson
Worcester vs Georgia
Jim Crow vs Georgia
In the first half of the 20th century (early 1900s), literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to
deny the right to vote to women
end the Reconstruction Era
deny the right to vote to African Americans
help pay for the growing New Deal programs
Who founded the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
An African American businessman and entrepreneur, he was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, as well as a series of barber shops.
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
W.E.B. Du Bois
