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GA Progressives
GA Studies Progressives Note Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Bourbon Triumvirate | A group of 3 Politicians who were elected to power between 1872 and 1890. The three people who ade up the BT were Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John B. Gordon. |
| The Feltons | Rebecca and William Felton were Progressives who worked to improve conditions for the poor, replace convict lease system, and helped lead Suffrage and Temperance movements. Rebecca Felton used her column in the Atlanta Journal to help spread her ideals. |
| Booker T. Washington | A civil rights leader who gave the famous Atlanta Compromise Speech in <year>. He believeed that black people needed to earn their rights instead of fighting for them. |
| W.E.B. Dubois | A civil rights leader who was a proffessor at Atlanta University. He did not agree with Booker T. Washington's viewpoints, and insisted that African American's take action. |
| John Hope | A civil rights leader who disagreed with Booker Washington and was friends with W.E.B. Dubois. Althought he could pass as a white man, he was proud of is African heritage. He worked for equality for all of his adult life. |
| Tom Watson | The leader of the progressives in Georgia and was known for supporting the Free Rural Delivery Bill. |
| Rich's | A popular store which was famous for having the first Plate Glass windows on a store in Georgia as well as hosting celebrations and events. |
| John Styth Pemberton | The creator of French Wine Coca which, when added with soda water, became the original Coca-Cola Soft Drink. Pemberton sold two-thirds of interest in his company. |
| Asa Candler | After John Pemberton died, Asa Candler bought all stock in the company from other people for $2,300. By 1892, Candler had sold his drug-store and formed the Coca-Cola company. He became very rich, but still donated some of the money to Emory. |
| Henry Grady | A progressive who used his power as editor of the Atlanta Constitution to spread ideas and support. He also coined the term the "New South" and used it to raise interest in the reconstructed southern states. |
| The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot | A large riot that occured the afternoon of Sunday, September 22 in Atlanta. Some people think that racial fears spread by politicians such as Tom Watson or Hoke Smith. Others blamed the newspapers for printing stories of false black assaults. |
| Leo Frank | A Superintendent for a Company in Atlanta who was accused of killing a young employee. He was found guilty largely from the black janitor at the factory. The janitor had been a suspect as well. Leo Frank was given a life sentence, but was later lynched. |
| Alonzo Herndon | A man born a slave, but later learned to be a barber and moved to Atlanta. In the early 1900s, he bought a small insurance company and hired African American College graduates to the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, now Atlanta Life Insurance Company. |
| Homer Plessy | He was 1/8 black and 7/8 white, so he sat in the "whites only" car. When he refused to move, he was arrested under the Jim Crow Car Act of 1890. This incident was staged by Plessy to test the constitutionality of the law. |
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