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New south vocab
| 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; their two major goals were increasing industry and lowering taxes. |
| International Cotton Exposition | three large events with the purpose of rebuilding Atlanta and boosting its economy by getting Northerners to invest their money in Atlanta. |
| Tom Watson | He wanted more rights for farmers and the working class; known for the Rural Free Delivery Act, which provided free mail delivery to rural areas of the country |
| Populists | A short-lived political party that was made up of farmers who wanted government control over banks and railroads. Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party. |
| New South | A time period in Georgia's history where Georgians tried to rebuild after the Civil War by encouraging industrial growth instead of relying on farming, or agriculture; racial practices and crimes still existed. |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that ensured segregation; for example, African Americans or Blacks and Whites attended separate schools and churches, drank from separate water fountains, rode in separate railroad 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 newspapers printed untrue reports of black men attacking white women, groups of Whites killed and wounded dozens of African Americans or Blacks and caused property damage in Atlanta. |
| W. E. B. DuBois | He was the rst African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and was co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909; he wanted immediate equality for African Americans or Blacks. |
| Booker T. Washington | He was born a slave, founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and became an educator, speaker, author, and community leader; he wanted a slower approach in the civil rights movement as shown through his Atlanta Compromise Speech. |
| Alonzo Herndon | He was born a slave and became Atlanta's first African American millionaire; he started the Atlanta Life Insurance Association and shared his wealth with orphanages and the YMCA. |
| anti-Semitism | Hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. |
| Leo Frank | A Northern Jewish, pencil factory manager who was accused of murdering 13-year- old Mary Phagan. When his sentence was reduced to life in prison from being sentenced to death, a group took him out of his jail cell and lynched him in Marietta. |
| Henry Grady | Managing editor for the Atlanta Journal (a newspaper); he wanted to diversify (vary) Georgia's economy. |
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