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100
1862 a law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government owned land to small farmers.
Homestead Act
100
A federal law passed by Congress that gave land to western states to encourage them to build colleges
Morrill Act
100
The system used in Georgia between 1877 and 1963 that gave rural counties an advantage over urban counties in elections to the state legislature due to more representation per person
County Unit System
100
Another method by which Southern Democrats kept African Americans from voting by allowing only whites to vote in a primary
White Primary
100
A murder by hanging or shooting, usually carried out by a mob
Lynching
200
African Americans who settled western lands in the late 1800s.
Exodusters
200
John B Gordon, Alfred Holt Colquitt, and Joseph E Brown, who controlled the Democratic Party in Georgia from the 1970s to the 1890s.
Bourbon Triumvirate
200
An organization formed in Texas in the late 1870s to help the southern farmers get better prices for crops
Farmers' Alliance
200
An early African American leader for racial equality who suggested that African Americans improve themselves through education and gain economic strength before demanding the same rights as whites. Founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a vocational school for African Americans
Booker T Washington
200
An important African American educator, he supported liberal education for blacks. He served as the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, first graduate school for African Americans only.
John Hope
300
Reservations
Federal land set aside for Native Americans.
300
A state legislator, preacher, and physician, he won a seat in the US Congress in 1874 as an Independent Democrat. He served in the US Congress for 3 terms.
William H Felton
300
A political party formed in 1892 that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, immigration restrictions, and government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone systems
Populist Party
300
One of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) in 1909, he was an African American Civil Rights activist. He believed that African Americans deserved equal access to political, social, and economic resources.
WEB DuBois
300
A speech made by Booker T Washington in 1895 that called all African Americans to focus on learning skills and gaining economic strength as a means to earn their way to respect and equality An early 12th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life
Atlanta Compromise Progressive Movement
400
Mass killing by U.S. soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed Sioux in South Dakota.
Wounded Knee Massacre
400
New constitution that reduced the power of state government, reducing the term of governors and state senators to two years, stripped the governor of the power to appoint many positions including judges, and eliminated district courts.
Constitution of 1877
400
A state senator from the Populists Party, he argued that the industrialization of the New South did little to improve the lives of Georgia’s small farmers. Later became bitterly against African Americans. Progressive era campaigner for civil rights and causes such a as prohibition and compulsory school attendance, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate.
Tom Watson Rebecca Latimer Felton
400
The withholding from a person of one of the rights of citizenship, such as the right to vote
Disenfranchisement
400
As an educator and a mother she was concerned about the education for children, white and black. She organized the first National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers and cofounded the National Congress of Parents and teachers Neighborhood centers staffed by professionals and volunteers for education, recreation, and social activities in poor areas.
Selena Sloan Butler Settlement Houses
500
A railroad system that crossed the continental United States, construction began in 1863.
Transcontinental Railroad
500
An organization created by African American farmers in the late 1800s to try to obtain better wages for farm laborers.
Colored farmers' alliance
500
1896 U.S. Supreme court case that established the “Separate but equal” doctrine for public facilities
Plessy v Ferguson
500
A law that enforced segregation in the southern states
Jim Crow Laws
500
Considered the “father of the common school system” in Georgia, he became the state’s school commissioner in 1872, argued for a school to train teachers and for vocational education, and supported education for African Americans A term coined for journalists who ranked up and exposed corruption and problems of society
Gustavus Orr muckrackers
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