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WorksheetsSS8H7 New South
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
The Bourbon Triumvirate would have most likely supported expanding what?
Railroad expansion and mining
The International Cotton Exposition of 1881 was an important success for Georgia in what regard?
It attracted significant industrial resources from the north.
Why did Tom Watson and other notable members of the Populist Party criticize Henry Grady for his work with the Atlanta Constitution?
He supported industry over the interests of farmers
Tom Watson and the Populist lowered taxes to help what group of people
Henry Grady used the Atlanta Constitution to promote these ideals
Industrial growth and diversify crops
How did the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson impact society in the South?
What means were used to disenfranchise African Americans
Literacy tests, poll taxes, understanding clauses, white primary, and intimidation.
How did the Supreme Court justify its ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
The court argued that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments extended political rights to African Americans, but not social rights.
Even though the amendments were ratified, many southern states kept African Americans from exercising their right to vote during the "Jim Crow Era." How were they able to do this?
The government didn't enforce them.
What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case?
The Supreme Court upheld racial segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine making it constitutional.
What was the ultimate impact of the 1906 Atlanta Riot on the city?
What word best describes African American rights during the Jim Crow period?
segregation
Why did W.E.B. Du Bois criticize Booker T. Washington?
Booker felt that African Americans should focus on establishing themselves in society through trade/vocational skills/hard work and education before fighting for civil rights immediately.
Explain how Alonzo Herndon had an impact how to advance African-American rights?
Alonzo Herndon founded businesses and established financial independence in spite of racism and offered to let blacks work for him and learn.
What African American leader tolerated racial discrimination and accepted social segregation?
Booker T. Washington established what school
to improve educational opportunities for African Americans
W.E.B. Du Bois felt Booker T Washington did not fight hard enough for what?
Civil rights and social/racial equality for African Americans
Racial ethnic tensions existed in Georgia during the early twentieth century were displayed in what two events
What convicted Leo Frank before he set foot in a courtroom and spread lies that African American men were assaulting white women?
Public hysteria and newspaper headlines/media influence.
Leo Frank had two strikes against him in the eyes of poor whites. What were they?
He was Jewish and a factory manager from the north.
In what was was Leo Frank's case similar to what African Americans were experiencing?
He was the voice of the New South and fought for industry
