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SS8H7

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 22mins

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.

Where did the Bourbons look for investors for their business?

a)

The South

b)

Their Neighbors

c)

The North

d)

Europe

3.

Who was the leader of the Populist Party?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Alfred Hitchcock

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Tom Watson

4.

This set of laws enforced segregation:

a)

John Eagle Laws

b)

Disenfranchisement Laws

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

The KKK Laws

5.

Taking away African American's right to vote is:

a)

Disenfranchisement

b)

Atlanta Race Riot

c)

Segregation

d)

Party Laws

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

The "Knights of Mary Phagen":

a)

Were from Columbus, Ga

b)

Kidnapped Leo Frank and lynched him

c)

Were family of Leo Frank

d)

Posted on Instagram updates of the case

11.

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.

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.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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)

19.

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

20.

founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Leo Frank

d)

Alonzo Herndon

21.

Which of the following was NOT one of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

Joseph E Brown

c)

John B Gordon

d)

Alfred H Colquitt

22.

What was the name of the industrial fairs that spotlighted attention on the state's cotton textile industry?

a)

Georgia State Peach Fair

b)

Advancement in the Textile Industry

c)

Cotton Textile Fair

d)

International Cotton Exposition

23.

Southern Legislature passed laws that disenfranchised and legally segregated blacks in the South. What was this set of laws known as?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Jerry Jones Laws

d)

Black Laws

24.

Who is this man that was arrested in Louisiana for riding in the "White's Only" section of a railcar.

a)

Plessy Johnson

b)

John Furguson

c)

Homer Furguson

d)

Homer Plessy

25.
Which of the following was not a means to disenfranchise blacks?
a)
Poll tax
b)
The 15th Amendment
c)
Racial violence or intimidation
26.
Who sponsored the Rural Free Delivery (RFD)?
a)
Hoke Smith
b)
Tom Watson
c)
Henry Grady
27.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ___________.
a)
abolished slavery
b)
established the principle of “equal protection” for all citizen
c)
gave blacks the right to vote.
28.
The New South movement was more concerned with changing Georgia
a)
economically.
b)
politically.
c)
socially.
29.

Populists like Tom Watson believed that some Americans needed more support in the New South. Populists worked to help

a)

Bankers

b)

Railroad executives

c)

Farmers

d)

Plutocrats

30.

Booker T Washington encouraged African American citizens to focus on industry and agriculture instead of political efforts for civil rights. This was called

a)

the Atlanta Convention

b)

the Atlanta Compromise

c)

the Atlanta Confrontation

d)

the Atlanta Corporation

31.

Henry Grady was

a)

a Confederate veteran who ran for governor

b)

a farmer who planted cotton as a cash crop

c)

a newspaper editor who gave speeches about the New South

d)

a doctor who started a hospital that is now named for him

32.

During the New South era, many people continued to rely on ____________ as their only cash crop instead of diversifying into other crops to make money.

a)

pecans

b)

peaches

c)

cotton

d)

kohlrabi

33.

Sharecropping meant that farmers who did not own land could work on someone else's land to plant crops. The sharecropper then

a)

sold the crop and kept all the profits

b)

sold the crop and kept none of the profit

c)

earned a part of any profit from selling the crop

34.

Which of the following was NOT one of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

Joseph E Brown

c)

John B Gordon

d)

Alfred H Colquitt

35.

Southern Legislature passed laws that disenfranchised and legally segregated blacks in the South. What was this set of laws known as?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Jerry Jones Laws

d)

Black Laws

36.

Henry Grady used his newspaper, The Atlanta Journal, to promote the "New South", which was based on

a)

New industry, racial harmony, and crop diversification

b)

Railroads, racial harmony, and cotton farming

c)

Segregation, the convict-lease system, and crop diversification

d)

Racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and cotton farming

37.

Tom Watson broke away from the Democratic party and joined the Populist party because he wanted to help

a)

Poor farmers

b)

Wealthy landowners

c)

Wealthy bussinessmen

d)

Powerful lawmakers

38.

The purpose of the International Cotton Exposition was to

a)

Show off Atlanta's industry and farming developments

b)

Show off Atlanta's racial equality and unity

c)

Show off Atlanta's new gold domed capital building

d)

Show off Atlanta's new transportation systems

39.
Georgia’s first Jim Crow laws _________________.
a)
took away citizenship from black
b)
took away a black’s right to vote
c)
segregated facilities for blacks and white
40.
Who was Atlanta's first black millionaire?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
Alonzo Herndon
c)
W.E.B. DuBois
d)
Homer Plessy