Industrialization & Expo
This 1881 Atlanta event showcased the city's recovery and promoted Southern industrial growth; name the exposition.
International Cotton Exposition
Booker T. Washington argued Black Americans should focus on what two goals to advance their status?
Vocational education and economic self‑help (hard work/training) and becoming indispensable to local communities (economic improvement)
This law required separate facilities for Black and white citizens in many parts of public life, including schools, transportation, and restrooms. What name is commonly used for these state and local laws enacted after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws
Which industry gets the most direct benefit from 111.67 million visitors and $31 billion in spending?
Tourism
Leader who advised African Americans to focus on vocational training and economic self-reliance
Booker T. Washington
Identify two ways industrialization changed Southern cities after the Civil War.
Growth of factories and railroads; increased urban jobs; migration to cities.
According to the 1895, Atlanta Compromise quotation, how did Washington say equality would be achieved: quickly by law, or gradually by...
Gradually, through “severe and constant struggle” and economic improvement rather than by artificial forcing or immediate legal change
Plessy v. Ferguson (excerpt) created what doctrine that legalized separation of races? (one- or two-word answer)
The “separate but equal” doctrine
The poster says “Come to Georgia” and mentions tax incentives, good airports, and many different shooting locations (swamps, farms, cities). Which industry is this poster trying to attract?
Film and television production (movie industry)
Scholar and civil-rights advocate who called for immediate political action and higher education for African Americans:
W. E. B. DuBois
Organizers of the International Cotton Exposition wanted to demonstrate the “New South.”
The recovery of the city of Atlanta from the destruction of the Civil War
Why did W. E. B. Du Bois criticize Washington’s approach? Choose the best answer from: A) tolerated discrimination B) promoted immediate civil rights C) supported violent protest D) encouraged emigration.
A. Du Bois criticized Washington’s approach as accepting racial inferiority and emphasizing accommodation
The literacy-test is how southern states limited voting rights. Name two methods (besides literacy tests) used to disenfranchise Black voters in this period.
Poll taxes; grandfather clauses; white primaries; plus violence/intimidation (any two of these)
Name two ways a big film production can help a local town's economy besides hiring workers.
It can boost local businesses (hotels, restaurants, shops) because cast and crew need places to eat and stay, and it can increase business for local services (renting equipment, using local contractors and transportation).
Former slave who became a successful Atlanta businessman and founded a major insurance company
Alonzo Herndon
Explain one reason the Cotton Exposition included exhibits about both industry and agriculture.
Because the South wanted to attract investment by showing both its raw agricultural resources (cotton) and its growing industrial capacity
Identify one action Du Bois or the NAACP supported that Booker T. Washington did not emphasize. (short answer)
Legal challenges and political activism to demand equal civil rights (e.g., NAACP strategies, lawsuits) — (one action Du Bois/NAACP supported Washington did not emphasize)
A newspaper from the early 1900s reports that many states required separate railroad cars and separate schools by law. What does this tell us about life for Black Americans after Reconstruction?
That laws forced Black and white people to live apart and treated Black people as unequal.
True or False A big film production can help a small Georgia town by bringing more customers to local restaurants and hotels while the crew is in town.
True.
Tom Watson originally supported small farmers (Populists) but later used his influence differently — name one way his politics changed.
Watson shifted from populist, pro-farmer positions to use of racist and antisemitic rhetoric and support for segregation (accept one clear change).
Explain how the Bourbon Triumvirate's policies both helped and hurt Georgia farmers and laborers (brief answer expected).
They promoted industry and business-friendly laws that helped Atlanta and merchants but supported low taxes and limited government spending that reduced aid to small farmers, leaving many small farmers struggling.
Compare Washington’s belief that economic progress should come first with Du Bois’s advocacy for political rights
Du Bois argued for immediate political and civil rights (The Souls of Black Folk). Support: cartoons and press showing unequal justice and disenfranchisement indicate that legal and political action was needed rather than only vocational uplift.
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) said states could make laws separating Black and white people as long as facilities were "equal." Explain one long‑term effect this ruling had on public schools or public transportation in the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson allowed states to keep schools and transit segregated for decades, so Black schools and train cars received less funding and poorer facilities than white ones; this unequal system limited educational and economic opportunities for Black Americans.
True or False Atlanta attracts many large employers because it has a large airport, many colleges and universities, and a big workforce that companies can hire from.
True.
Compare the approaches of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois in one or two sentences.
Washington promoted vocational education and economic self-reliance; DuBois argued for immediate civil and political rights and higher education.