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WorksheetsThe Fast and the Curious 7 (AKS 37)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
What was the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Three powerful women in the Senate
Three powerful state leaders that believed axes should be lowered, more industry in the South, and power should be restored to the Republicans, and believed in White Supremacy.
Three democratic state leaders that believed taxes should be lowered, more industry in the South, wanted to develop railroads, and power should be restored to the Democrats, and believed in White Supremacy.
The men that made up the Bourbon Triumvirate were:
Joseph Brown, Alonzo Herndon, and Booker T. Washington
Alfred Brown, John B. Gordon, and Henry Grady
Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, Henry Grady, and John B. Gordon
Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon
Who was Henry Grady and what did he do?
A black man that believed in the people and he has a hospital named after him in Atlanta.
He was the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, born in Athens, wanted to industrialize the South, and he believed in diversifying agriculture.
A successful politician, Governor of GA during the Civil War, and U.S. Senator from GA
A member of the Bourbon Triumvirate who supported desegregation.
Who was Tom Watson?
Supported the farmers = against the growth of industry in the South, Concerned for the African American farmer, 1882 - Elected to the Georgia General Assembly
Ran for governor in 1882, supported industry over farming, and was an Indian man
He was living on Cherokee land and refused to leave
True or False. The Atlanta Cotton Expo:
•Promoted industry
•Events were effective
•Displayed Atlanta’s “rise from the ashes”
•Promoted Atlanta as the leading city of the South
True
False
Under the Jim Crow Laws...
Blacks could not vote or serve on juries, but they could vote, no segregation
Blacks could be part of a jury for trial and had the same type of facilities as whites
Nothing happened except the crows left.
Black US citizens were denied many basic rights and SEGREGATION (separation of the races) became acceptable
What was Plessy v. Ferguson about?
Homer Plessy, who was 1/2 black was arrested.
Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black, was arrested for sitting at a white section in a railcar.
Homer Plessy was a white man who sued Ferguson for not paying poll taxes.
Examples of Disenfranchisement:
Voter Registration
Poll taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clause
15th Amendment
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, Georgia.
Leo Frank Case
Disenfranchisement
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for Blacks
Leo Frank
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Alonzo Herndon
Founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company; Atlanta's first black millionaire.
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Leo Frank
Alonzo Herndon
Educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that 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 1906 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 Massacre
Plessy v. Ferguson (1892)
Separate but Equal
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Atlanta Race Massacre
Disenfranchisement
Prejudice against Jews
Jim Crow Laws
Literacy Test
Anti-Semitism
Disenfranchisement
