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GH8: Unit 6 Review
Term | Definition |
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Bourbon Triumvirate | Joseph Brown - Alfred Colquitt - John Gordon - idea of industrialization |
Populist Party | New political party formed during New South - supported farmers and common people |
Henry Grady | "Voice of the New South" - "Father of the New South" - helped organize International Cotton Exposition |
Tom Watson | GA politician - leader of Populist Party - created RFD bill - assisted poor Georgians and farmers |
Rural Free Delivery (RFD) | Delivery of mail to rural areas for FREE |
International Cotton Exposition | 1881 and 185 - created to show economic recovery and potential of South after Reconstruction |
Atlanta Race Riots - 1906 | Racial violence between white and black citizens - began as result of false accusations against black citizens |
Leo Frank | Jewish factory manager - accused of killing 14 year old Mary Phagan - sentenced to death but later changed to life in prison - abducted and lynched in Marietta |
Knights of Mary Phagan | KKK reborn in GA after they lynched the man of murdering Mary Phagan |
Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed to establish segregation amount black and white citizens |
Disenfranchisement | Act of denying someone the right to vote - examples: literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause |
Plessy v Fergeson | US Supreme Court case - upheld segregation - centered around multi-racial man that was arrested for sitting in a "Whites Only" railroad car |
Racial violence | Events such as: race riots, lynchings, Leo Frank case |
Booker T. Washington | Founder & President of Tuskegee University - favored gradual approach to earning equality |
W. E. B. Dubois | University professor - believed African Americans should demand equality and fight against discrimination and segregation - helped organize NAACP |
Alonzo Herndon | Atlanta businessman - barber - owner of Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company - became wealthiest African American in Atlanta |
equal | Plessy v Ferguson upheld segregation and idea of "separate but ________" |
Leo Frank case | Event was an example of anti-semitism during the New South era |
New South | Name of Henry Grady's plan/idea that called for change in the south - industrialization |