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new south
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| disenfranchisement | to deprive a person of the right to vote or rights of citizenship |
| Bourbon Triumvirate | Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown. Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years there to major goals were increasing industry in lowering taxes |
| International Cotton Exposition | a series of large expositions held in Atlanta, Georgia, to promote the Southern United States' economic recovery and industrial potential after the Civil War |
| Tom Watson | A guy who wanted more rights for farmers and the working : know does the rural free delivery Act which provided free mail delivery to rural arenas of the country |
| Populists | a short lived political party that was made up farmers who wanted government control over banks and rail roads. Tom watson was a leader and president candidate |
| New South | a time period in Gerogias history where Georgia’s tried to rebuild after after the civil war by encoruaging industrial growth instead of realying on farming, or agriculter: racial practices and crimes still exsisted |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws that ensure segregation : for example african americans black or whites attend separate schools and churches , drank from seperate water fountains , rode in separates cars and visited separate parks |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine which promoted segregation of people according to race |
| Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 | after the news papers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women groups of whites killing and wonded dozens of african americans or blacks and caused proterty damage to atlanta |
| W. E. B. DuBois | he was the first african american to earn a PhD from harvard university and was co- founder of NAACP( national Association for the advance of colored people in 1909: he wanted as shown through his atlanta compromise |
| Booker T. Washington | he was born a slave founded the tuskegee institution in alabama and became an educator speaker, speaker author and community leader |
| Alonzo Herndon | was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia. Born into slavery, he became one of the first African American millionaires in the United States, first achieving success by owning and operating three large barber shops in the cit |
| anti-Semitism | Hostility to,prejudice, or discrimination against Jew |
| Leo Frank | Leo Max Frank was an American victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attenti |
| Henry Grady | Henry Woodfin Grady was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the postbellum South, which Grady referred to as "The New |
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