Chapter 15
TRUE OR FALSE? The group of political leaders known as Progressive Democrats promoted political and social equality for African Americans in Georgia.
FALSE
Progressive Democrats sought to improve social conditions in Georgia, but they believed in white supremacy and opposed any law that would promote social equality or competition between the races.
Who was the druggist who created the headache remedy that would become Coca-Cola?
JOHN PEMBERTON
Augusta educator who worked to prepare African-American students for college
Which of the following people does the statement above relate to?
Booker T. Washington, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon, Lucy Laney, W. E. B. DuBois, Lugenia Burns Hope, Selena Sloan Butler
LUCY LANEY
The popular name for members of the People’s party, which existed from 1892 to 1912.
What are THE POPULISTS?
Heart of the cotton-growing region in the South, so named for its high percentage of black residents.
What is the BLACK BELT?
Which Amendment is this?
Passed in 1919, it established prohibition, making the manufacture, transportation, or sale of alcohol illegal in the United States.
Henry Grady believed that industrialization was the key to pulling the South out of poverty and economic dependency. From his desk at the Atlanta Constitution, what did he do?
He urged Northern business men to invest in the South .
Built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama as a center for black education.
Which of the following people does the statement above relate to?
Booker T. Washington, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon, Lucy Laney, W. E. B. DuBois, Lugenia Burns Hope, Selena Sloan Butler
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Forbidding the manufacture, sale, or use of alcoholic beverages.
What is PROHIBITION?
Name the Court Case:
In the 1896 case of __________, the Court upheld the Louisiana conviction of a black man who tried to ride in a train car reserved for whites. If equal public facilities were provided for both races, the Court ruled, then they could be legally separate.
What is PLESSY V. FERGUSON?
The law allowed three exemptions from the literacy test.. name 1. (300 points for each right answer)
Why is Gustavus J. Orr known as the “father of the common school system” in Georgia?
As state school commissioner, Orr built a state system of public education by encouraging Georgians to tax themselves to pay for schools and by helping county school boards make the most of what little money was available.
First African-American to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard.
Which of the following people does the statement above relate to?
Booker T. Washington, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon, Lucy Laney, W. E. B. DuBois, Lugenia Burns Hope, Selena Sloan Butler
W. E. B. DuBois
Taking away the right to vote.
What is DISFRANCHISEMENT?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in 1897, that separate public facilities for whites and blacks were legal as long as they were equal in character. The doctrine was overturned in 1954.
What is SEPARATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINE?
TRUE OR FALSE?
New South movement believed that the South’s prosperity depended on manufacturing and other industry, not cotton. It also believed that farmers had to diversify by growing more foods and grains usually purchased from other states.
TRUE
Identify the former slave who was emancipated at the end of the Civil War and founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful blackowned insurance businesses in the nation.
Who was ALONZO HERNDON?
Teacher and reformer who spoke in favor of prison reform.
Which of the following people does the statement above relate to?
Booker T. Washington, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon, Lucy Laney, W. E. B. DuBois, Lugenia Burns Hope, Selena Sloan Butler
SELENA SLOAN BUTLER
A legal claim on the crop of the farmer as payment for a loan given to grow that crop.
What is A CROP LIEN?
Who was the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Who is William E.B. DuBois?
500 POINTS PER CORRECT ANSWER!
Explain the difference between de facto segregation and de jure segregation.
Seen in the North as well as the South, “de facto” segregation was segregation existing in fact, meaning attitudes and actions created segregation, and “de jure” segregation was segregation existing by law, where the law required segregation.
TRUE OR FALSE?
Leo Frank was the Jewish manager of an Atlanta pencil factory, where a 14-year-old girl was killed. While Frank apparently was innocent, he was convicted and sentenced to hang although the governor reduced his sentence to life imprisonment. In 1915, Tom Watson began a series of antiJewish editorials against Frank. As a result, a lynch mob broke into the state prison, seized Frank, and hanged him.
TRUE
Founder of Neighborhood Union to provide services to black families in Atlanta .
Which of the following people does the statement above relate to?
Booker T. Washington, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon, Lucy Laney, W. E. B. DuBois, Lugenia Burns Hope, Selena Sloan Butler
LUGENIA BURNS HOPE
Nickname for three political leaders in the New South movement: John B. Gordon, Joseph E. Brown, and Alfred E. Colquitt.
The __________ was typical of the violence against blacks and the lawlessness of the time. By then, Georgia had gained a national reputation for the lynching of blacks. Moreover, the candidate for governor was running on a platform to take the vote away from blacks.
1906 ATLANTA RACE RIOT?