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WorksheetsNew South Quiz
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which of the following statements BEST describes the “Bourbon Triumvirate”?
Southern leaders who wanted to see the South’s culture and economy return to the way it was before the Civil War.
Republicans who governed in the South during Reconstruction.
Southern Democrats who dominated Georgia politics during the late 1800’s for about 20 years.
Former slaves who served in the state legislature during Reconstruction.
Who promoted the "New South" and the Bourbon Triumvirate in his news articles?
Watson
Grady
Gordon
Brown
What event took place in Atlanta during the 1880s & 1890s that helped promote the "New South" and lure Northern investors into the region?
The World's Fair
International Cotton Exposition
Olympic Games
Andersonville Prison
Who spoke at the International Cotton Exposition in a speech known as the Atlanta Compromise Speech?
W.E.B. DuBois
George Washington
Booker T. Washington
Alfred Colquitt
Who was the leader of the Populist Party in Georgia?
Tom Watson
Henry Grady
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Stephens
Tom Watson & the Populist Party worked to support the needs of _____________?
farmers and rural people
rich bankers & businessmen
wealthy industrialists
powerful railroad tycoons
Did Tom Watson support African American farmers EARLY in his political career?
YES
NO
Select three (3) statements that explain why Tom Watson and the Populist Party OPPOSED the New South policies of the Bourbon Triumvirate and Henry Grady?
Watson opposed the New South concept of basing Georgia's economy on business & industry.
As a supporter of an agriculture-based economy, Watson believed Grady's New South concept would harm Georgia's farmers.
Watson believed that the best thing for Georgia's farmers and rural families was to keep the state's economy centered on agriculture.
Watson and the Populist Party opposed the Bourbon Triumvirate and Henry Grady over religious reasons, like the separation of church and state.
Leader of the Tuskegee Institute that provided vocational education & job training for African Americans
Booker T. Washington
WEB Dubois
Many African Americans criticized this leader calling him an "accommodationist" and a "compromiser" who gave-in to white demands?
Booker T. Washington
WEB Dubois
Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed
white people are superior
the telephone is the best invention
Education for African-Americans is important
Equal rights for all
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
Texas vs. Johnson
Tinker vs. DesMoines
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?
Keep public facilities cleaner
keep African-Americans as second-class citizens
keep the races pure
keep African-Americans from voting
Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.
Literacy Tests
Voting tests
Government Tests
Poll tests
What areas were racially segregated?
Schools
Housing
Public Transportation
All of these answers
Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?
Eastern Shore
South
North
What is the name of the laws that prevented equality, even after slavery was abolished?
Emancipation Proclamation Laws
Brown v. Board of Education Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation Laws
The name "Jim Crow" was based on...
a book
an actual person
a dance
a character
Select all of the things that African-Americans could not legally do according to Jim Crow laws.
shake the hand of a white male
show affection toward one another in public
sit in the front of a car driven by a white person
eat with a white person
Where did the Bourbons look for investors for their business?
The South
Their Neighbors
The North
Europe
Taking away African American's right to vote is:
Disenfranchisement
Atlanta Race Riot
Segregation
Party Laws
educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans or Blacks should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality.
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
Leo Frank
W.E.B. DuBois
48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.
Anti-Semitism
Atlanta Race Riot (1906)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)
Separate but Equal
What industrial fair highlighted the growth and improvements of Georgia’s textile industry?
International Cotton Exposititon
Cotton Warehouse
Cotton Pickin Fair
Georgia State Fair
to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship
Jim Crow Laws
Separate but Equal
Anti-Semitism
Disenfranchisement
48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.
Anti-Semitism
Atlanta Race Riot (1906)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)
Separate but Equal
laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights
Disenfranchisement
Separate but Equal
Jim Crow Laws
Anti-Semitism
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)
Atlanta Race Riot (1906)
Disenfranchisement
Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.
Separate but Equal
Literacy Test
Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
Grandfather Clause
Anti-Semitism
Literacy Test
