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Week 10: Starter

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what way did the International Cotton Exposition help Atlanta?

a)

The city became an important economic center for the state and the region.

b)

African Americans in the North came to the city because of its economic opportunities.

c)

It showed the rest of the nation that the South had overcome the devastation of the war.

d)

Northern businesses saw the city as a potential site for their manufacturing interests.

2.

Which fo the following best describes the platform (goals) of the Bourbon Democrats?

a)

There was an emphasis on increasing manufacturing and production in the state.

b)

The key to prosperity for the state was to concentrate only on agricultural production.

c)

To make the best use of state resources more money needed to be spent on farmers.

d)

The state's economy needed northern resources and money to compete.

3.

Who of the following would support Georgia Democrats regaining power?

a)

A teacher working for the Freedman's Bureau

b)

An African American sharecropper living on a small farm

c)

A scalawag land investor who supports Rufus B. Bullock.

d)

A wealthy planter who lost much of his wealth during the war.

4.

Why might a voter living in an urban area dislike the county unit system?

a)

The system might not accurately reflect what urban voters in the county supported.

b)

The system tended to favor those living in wealthier counties over poorer ones.

c)

The system implemented more eligibility restrictions on urban voters.

d)

The system was intended to help African American voters but instead favored whites.

5.

Which of the following political parties might a cotton farmer in Georgia most likely support

a)

the Bourbon Democrats

b)

the Populist Party

c)

the Republican Party

d)

the New South Democrats

6.

What best describes the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

It was a group of university educators who supported the New South programs.

b)

It was an assembly of African American politicians running for political office.

c)

It was a trio of Georgia Democrats that controlled the Georgia state government.

d)

IT was a meeting of white and African American farmers pushing for political reform.

7.

Taking away African American's right to vote is:

a)

Disenfranchisement

b)

Atlanta Race Riot

c)

Segregation

d)

Party Laws

8.

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

9.

The NAACP is a:

a)

Political Party

b)

a group that fights to protect equal rights for African Americans

c)

an organization that helps poor people

d)

a church who sings about political issues

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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