New South Era
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South | Idea of making the South stronger and more independent by becoming more industrial
🗑
|
||||
| Triumvirate | Ruling body of three
🗑
|
||||
| Urban | City-like
🗑
|
||||
| Suburbs | Communities on the outskirts of a city
🗑
|
||||
| Suffrage | Right to vote
🗑
|
||||
| Temperance | Anti-alcohol
🗑
|
||||
| Grange | A farm and its buildings
🗑
|
||||
| Farmer's Alliance | Social organization formed to help farmers buy goods at cheap prices
🗑
|
||||
| Populist Party | "People's Party"; formed through a combo of the Farmer's Alliance and labor unions; meant to stop unfair practices
🗑
|
||||
| Scrip | Money that isn't legal currency
🗑
|
||||
| Who coined the phrase "New South?" | Henry W. Grady
🗑
|
||||
| Who were the 3 members of the Bourbon Triumvirate? | John Gordon, Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt
🗑
|
||||
| List positives accomplished by the BT. | Expanded industry, lowered war debt and taxes
🗑
|
||||
| List negatives accomplished by the BT. | Spread racism and hate, overlooked corrupt practices in government, factories and hospitals, white supremacy
🗑
|
||||
| When was the New South era? | After Reconstruction
🗑
|
||||
| Who is Henry W. Grady? | GA journalist, national public speaker
🗑
|
||||
| Who were the people of the superpower couple? | William and Rebecca Felton
🗑
|
||||
| What were the Feltons' causes? | Poor people, convict lease system
🗑
|
||||
| What were Rebecca's causes? | Suffrage, temperance, politics
🗑
|
||||
| What was the convict lease system? | System in which people and businesses rented convicts to work in exchange for food/shelter, very corrupt, Brown and Gordon involved
🗑
|
||||
| Why were farmers going bankrupt? | Due to poor economic conditions
🗑
|
||||
| Why was the grange formed? | As a social and political force to help farmers
🗑
|
||||
| GA was the first state to do what to help farmers? | To form a government agency
🗑
|
||||
| What two groups combined to form the Populist Party? | The Grange and the Farmers Alliance
🗑
|
||||
| Who was Tom Watson? | A famous populist, US representative from GA, RFD (Rural Free Delivery) Bill
🗑
|
||||
| Length of school year? | Three months
🗑
|
||||
| Grade levels? | Mixed together, 1-8
🗑
|
||||
| Instruction? | Spelling, reading, writing, grammar, geography, simple math
🗑
|
||||
| School facilities? | Anywhere- barn, tree, schoolhouse
🗑
|
||||
| Methods of punishment? | Circus Wag, Horse and Rider
🗑
|
||||
| Teacher training and duties? | One month training, 70+ on test
🗑
|
||||
| Teacher salaries? | Black= $25/month White= $65/month
🗑
|
||||
| Alanzo Herndon | Former slave, operated successful ATL barber shop, owned real estate in ATL, established Atlanta Life Insurance Agency
🗑
|
||||
| Sidney Lanier | Famous NSE poet and author, wrote "The Song of the Chattahoochee" and "The Marshes of Glynn," wrote orchestral piece with words for USA's centennial, lake named for him
🗑
|
||||
| Joel Chandler Harris | Famous NSE author, worked at the ATL Constitution with Henry Grady, compiled Uncle Remus Tales
🗑
|
||||
| Mary Lumpkin | Established the first Ladies Garden Club in America
🗑
|
||||
| Martha Berry | Established a highly successful college in Rome, GA by using her family's former plantation, land and money
🗑
|
||||
| Ty Cobb | First player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
🗑
|
||||
| Juliet Gordon Lowe | Founded the American Girl Scouts in Savannah, GA
🗑
|
||||
| Morris Reich | Founded Rich's Department store in 1867
🗑
|
||||
| The opening of Rich's Department store? | 1867- Rich's became GA's first department store
🗑
|
||||
| The first phone conversation in GA? | 1881- Between Anton Kontz and Wrenn, railroad people
🗑
|
||||
| The beginning of Coca-Cola? | 1886- Began as a local GA drink invented by Doc Pemberton, Robert Woodruff turned into a mutli-billion dollar business
🗑
|
||||
| The opening of GA Tech? | 1888- Two buildings in downtown ATL, now one of the top tech schools in the US
🗑
|
||||
| Inman Park? | 1889- Two miles east of downtown Atlanta
🗑
|
||||
| The Cotton States and International Exposition? | 1880s and 1890s- Over 800,000 visitors; John Philip Sousa, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, displayed GA's hospitality
🗑
|
||||
| When was Mary Phagan murdered? | April 1913
🗑
|
||||
| Where was Mary Phagan murdered? | Pencil Factory in Atlanta, GA
🗑
|
||||
| What prompted the rebirth of the KKK? | The murder of Mary Phagan
🗑
|
||||
| When was the KKK reborn? | August 1915
🗑
|
||||
| How many members did the KKK have at its most popular? | Four million
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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
Created by:
reneslacis
Popular U.S. History sets