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SS8H7: The New South Study Guide

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon were known as the

a)

3 Musketeers

b)

Bourbon Triumvirate

c)

Populists

d)

Henry Grady's Guys

2.

1. Who wanted Georgia to become more self-sufficient by producing and manufacturing its own goods:

a)

Bourbon Democrats

b)

Populists

c)

Congress

d)

The Axis Powers

3.

Where did the Bourbons look for investors for their business?

a)

The South

b)

Their Neighbors

c)

The North

d)

Europe

4.

The Farmer's Alliance eventually turned into what political party?

a)

The Populist Party

b)

The Democratic Party

c)

The Dance Party

d)

The Libertarian Party

5.

Who was the leader of the Populist Party?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Alfred Hitchcock

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Tom Watson

6.

This set of laws enforced segregation:

a)

John Eagle Laws

b)

Disenfranchisement Laws

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The KKK Laws

7.

The Plessy v. Ferguson case:

a)

Stopped at the state level

b)

Was won by Homer Plessy

c)

Established "Separate but Equal"

d)

Happened because a white man went to the wrong bathroom.

8.

Taking away African American's right to vote is:

a)

Disenfranchisement

b)

Atlanta Race Riot

c)

Segregation

d)

Party Laws

9.

The KKK tried to stop African Americans from voting by ALL of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

Scaring them by burning schools and churches

d)

Driving African Americans to the polls

10.

The Atlanta Race Riot resulted in deeper segregation throughout ATL, and an even larger economic divide between black and white communities:

a)

True

b)

False

11.

This man believed African Americans should accept segregation for the time being:

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Jefferson Davis

12.

This man promoted higher education within the black community and believed that college- educated African Americans should lead the fight for equality:

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Tom Watson

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Jefferson Davis

13.

This man was a successful businessman and was born to a slave mother and a white father:

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Tom Watson

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Alonzo Herndon

14.

ALL of the following are true about Alonzo Herndon EXCEPT:

a)

He died the wealthiest man in ATL

b)

He gave charity to African American communities around Atlanta

c)

He started the Atlanta Life Insurance Company

d)

He was the founder of the NAACP

15.

Anti-Semitism is defined as:

a)

A hatred against Hispanics

b)

A hatred against Jews

c)

A love for Jews

d)

A love for symmetry

16.

The Leo Frank Case symbolized:

a)

The need for modern DNA Technology

b)

The growing voice of a Jewish community

c)

White Southerners' strong anti-Semitic feelings during the New South period

d)

Black Southerner's resilience to hatred.

17.

trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling themselves "the Knights of Mary Phagan" took Frank out of his prison cell and lynched him in Marietta

a)

Leo Frank Case

b)

Disenfranchisement

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

18.

civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans or Blacks

a)

Leo Frank

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Alonzo Herndon

19.

founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Leo Frank

d)

Alonzo Herndon

20.

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.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Alonzo Herndon

c)

Leo Frank

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

21.

to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Separate but Equal

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Disenfranchisement

22.

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.

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

d)

Separate but Equal

23.

laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights

a)

Disenfranchisement

b)

Separate but Equal

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Anti-Semitism

24.

Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

c)

Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

d)

Disenfranchisement

25.

Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.

a)

Separate but Equal

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)

26.

A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Anti-Semitism

c)

Literacy Test

27.

A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Poll Tax

28.

disenfranchisement law that said if a person's father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well.

a)

Separate but Equal

b)

Poll Tax

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Literacy Test

29.

What industrial fair highlighted the growth and improvements of Georgia’s textile industry?

a)

International Cotton Exposititon

b)

Cotton Warehouse

c)

Cotton Pickin Fair

d)

Georgia State Fair