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WorksheetsQUIZIZZ: New South Questions
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The “New South” was created after Reconstruction, and was influenced by a variety of individuals, groups, and events. Which statement BEST describes the influence of the group known as the Bourbon Triumvirate during this time?
What can you conclude about the purpose of Grady’s speech?
All of the following were purposes of the International Cotton Exposition EXCEPT to:
The New South refers to a time period when all of the following occurred EXCEPT
The Southern laws which ensured that blacks and white attended separate schools, drank from separate water fountains, attended separate churches, rode in separate railroad cars, and visited separate parks and recreational facilities were BEST known as:
The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v Ferguson (1896) basically legalized
In the first half of the 20th century, literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to:
Which group was created to resist Reconstruction and orchestrated over 400 lynchings that happened in Georgia from 1880-1930?
Who used his newspaper to promote the "New South" showing the world that Georgia had changed?
Tom Watson
Henry Grady
Booker T. Washington
Joseph E. Brown
How did Georgia democrats successfully disenfranchise blacks?
They passed many segregation laws banning blacks from mixing with whites.
They passed laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and the white primary.
They refused to allow blacks to share restrooms, schools, and other common places.
They invited blacks to take part in Georgia elections and even run for political office.
Which BEST describes Booker T. Washington?
Believed blacks should accept segregation and focus on growing economically.
Believed blacks should protest and demand equality.
Believed the best option for equality was to graduate college and become political leaders.
Believed that whites were superior to blacks.
Which BEST describes W.E.B. Dubois?
Believed blacks could succeed in the South by working in industrial jobs.
Believed blacks should never accept segregation and instead demand equality.
Believed that blacks were better off leaving politics to mainstream society.
Believed that the South provided equal opportunity for all.
What was the MAIN purpose of the International Cotton Exposition?
To showcase Georgia's progress since the Civil War and promote investment in Georgia's new industries.
To build new roads for mail delivery to rural farmers.
To rally support for the Convict Lease System.
To have participants listen to speeches by Henry Grady and Booker T. Washington.
Which description most clearly reflects the meaning of the phrase NEW SOUTH?
The South showed a new economic growth and prosperity during Reconstruction
The South made huge improvements in social, cultural, economic and political areas
The South began to increase business and industry, which created economic growth and prosperity
The agricultural South was completely gone, and the South needed to develop new industries to compete with the North
Why did Booker T. Washington believe it was important to learn a trade?
It allowed black people to own their own business.
It guaranteed immediate civil rights for black people.
It made black people more employable to white business owners.
It offered a simple way for black people to take out government loans.
How did sharecroppers pay for the supplies they used when harvesting the landowners’ crops?
They paid money up-front
They bought it on credit
They did not buy it-They were expected to use their own
Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping
Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.
Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping
Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty
Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.
As sharecroppers former slaves were given a place to live, seeds, and equipment in order produce crops. The land owner received a ________ of all crops grown
share or portion
ownership
debt
none of the above
