Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
New South SS8H7
The New South
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Bourbon Triumvirate would have most likely supported expanding what? | mining, railroads, lowering taxes, and industry |
| 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 | farmers |
| 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? | Nearly every aspect of life throughout the region became segregated along racial lines from schools to water fountains |
| What means were used to disenfranchise African Americans | Poll tax, literacy test, white primary, gerrymandering |
| 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 it. |
| What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case? | Segregation was made legal/constitutional |
| What was the ultimate impact of the 1906 Atlanta Riot on the city? | Deeper racial segregation |
| 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? | He founded businesses and established financial independence in spite of racism and offered to let blacks work for him and learn |
| Who tolerated racial discrimination and accepted social segregation? | Booker T Washington |
| Booker T. Washington established what school to improve educational opportunities for African Americans | The Tuskegee Institute |
| W.E.B. Du Bois felt Booker T Washington did not fight hard enough for what? | For racial equality |
| Racial ethnic tensions existed in Georgia during the early twentieth century were displayed in what two events | 1906 Race Riot and Leo Frank Case |
| What convicted Leo Frank before he set foot in a courtroom and spread lies that African American men were assaulting white women? | Newspapers |
| Leo Frank had two strikes against him in the eyes of poor whites. What were they? | He was Jewish and a Norther businessman |
| In what was was Leo Frank's case similar to what African Americans were experiencing? | Both faced discrimination and prejudices |
| He was the voice of the New South and fought for industry | Henry Grady |
Created by:
user-1984019