Reconstruction
New South Era
World War I
Great Depression
Miscellaneous
100
What is the 13th amendment?
Ended slavery in the United States.
100
What is disenfranchisement?
To deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.
100
I'm a British passenger ship that was sunk by the Germans in 1915. Over 100 Americans were killed; the sinking of the me contributed to America entering World War I.
Lusitania
100
I am an insect whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States.
A Boll Weevil
100
A New Deal program that hired unemployed young men to work on public works projects.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
200
What is the 14th Amendment?
Gave African-Americans or Blacks United States citizenship.
200
What is a literacy test?
A disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.
200
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Telegraph sent from Germany to Mexico offering the country the opportunity for an alliance. Germany urged Mexico to attack the United States in return for territory lost during the Mexican-American War.
200
One of the worst droughts in Georgia’s history; led to a depression in the state that predated the Great Depression. What year did I occur?
Drought of 1924
200
The New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas.
Rural Electrification Act
300
What is the 15th Amendment?
Gave African-American or Black men the right to vote.
300
What is a poll tax?
A disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote; this prevented poor blacks and whites from voting.
300
We make up the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
300
Name given to a period of time in the Midwest (1930-1936) characterized by drought, gigantic dust storms, and major agricultural damage.
Dust Bowl
300
was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death at Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945; visited Georgia more than 40 times for his treatment of polio at Warm Springs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
400
Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, owned their own farming equipment
Tenant Farmers
400
What caused the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot?
48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed during the riot.
400
How many Georgian's fought in World War I?
100,000
400
A factor that led to the Great Depression. A major stock market collapse that led to investors losing over 40 billion dollars. What year did I occur?
Stock Market Crash of 1929
400
New Deal program that paid farmers a stipend not to grow crops in order to increase the price of agricultural products.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
500
Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop
Sharecroppers
500
What is the populist party?
A short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.
500
How many Georgians died in WWI?
Over 3000
500
One of the factors that led to the Great Depression; when a bank ran out of reserves to pay customers who wanted to withdraw their deposits.
Bank Failures
500
New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment insurance for American taxpayers.
Social Security Administration
600
Name the 2 periods of Reconstruction
Congressional and Military
600
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Disenfranchisement law that said if a person’s father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well.
600
Many non-combatants in Georgia did this to help the war effort
Bought war bonds or grew “victory gardens” to help supply the troops.
600
A factor that led to the Great Depression; farmers continued to produce record numbers of crop yield though the demand for agricultural products was limited; this drove the cost of these products down.
OverProduction
600
What is anti-semitism and in what famous court case did it occur?
Leo Frank Case
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
700
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves (freedmen).
700
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights
700
These are the years World War I took place and this particular year the United States entered.
1914-1918
U.S. Enters in 1917
700
A factor that led to the Great Depression; economic fears caused consumers to stop buying manufactured products, which led to companies losing money and laying off more employees.
Reduction in Purchasing
700
What is the Great Migration?
The large movement of African Americans north and to cities after World War I.
800
Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen and Republicans from gaining political power in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
800
What was the Supreme court ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson?
Separate but Equal
800
Killing me was the spark that started World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
800
Four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.
Eugene Talmadge
800
Name the three members of the Bourbon Triumvirate
Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon
900
What are the black codes?
Laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen.
900
What is a white primary?
Tactic used by whites in Georgia to prevent blacks from voting in the Democratic primary; because Georgia was a one party state, this prevented African-Americans or Blacks from having a voice in elections.
900
The U.S. followed this type of policy until 1917
Neutrality or Isolationism
900
Name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression.
New Deal
900
What is the convict lease system?
The system of leasing convicts to business owners who in turn would provide housing, food and clothing for the convicts)
1000
I'm a civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans or Blacks. I'm more about confrontation rather than accommodation.
W.E.B Dubois
1000
I was President during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
1000
Georgia city that was home to Roosevelt’s “Little White House;” site’s warm water mineral springs were used as a rehabilitation center for polio victims.
Warm Springs
1000
Managing editor of the Atlanta Journal. Used the newspaper as a stage to promote his views concerning the industrialization of the South, the diversification of southern agriculture, and to lobby northern investors to help aid financially in both causes. Given credit for being instrumental in bringing the International Cotton Expositions to Atlanta and for the creation of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
Henry Grady
1100
What was the Camilla Massacre?
Ousted Representative Philip Joiner led over 200 African Americans or Blacks on a 25-mile march from Albany to Camilla to attend a Republican political rally. Locals in Camilla, who were determined that the Republican rally would not happen, ambushed the marchers as they arrived in Camilla, killing almost a dozen marchers and wounding over 30 others.
1100
I'm an educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans or Blacks should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality. I gave the Atlanta Compromise Speech.
Booker T. Washington.
1100
This type of warfare helped prompt the United States to enter World War I.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
1100
A political policy that gave each county a certain number of votes based on three categories (rural, town, or urban); system was ended because it violated the “one man one vote” doctrine.
County Unit System
1100
Lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party with a progressive view of racial policies; ended his career as an ardent segregationist and anti-Semite; died while serving a term as U.S. senator from Georgia. Owned the Jeffersonian, wrote a series of articles against Leo Frank that some say led to his lynching.
Tom Watson