New South Leaders
This group of three men dominated Georgia politics after Reconstruction.
Who were the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Atlanta hosted three of these major events in 1881, 1885, and 1895.
What were the International Cotton Expositions?
These laws enforced racial separation in the South.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This term means “denying the right to vote.”
What is disenfranchisement?
He believed African Americans should work hard and accept gradual progress.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
He promoted the “New South” through newspaper editorials.
Who was Henry Grady?
The purpose of the cotton expositions was to attract these people to Georgia.
Who were northern businesses/investors?
This Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal.”
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This clause allowed poor white men to vote if their ancestors did.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
He created the idea of the “Talented Tenth.”
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
The Bourbon Triumvirate had two central goals. Name one.
What are encouraging industry and maintaining white supremacy?
This engineering school was created in part because of Henry Grady’s efforts.
What is Georgia Tech?
This voting restriction required people to prove they could read, but was unfairly applied to prevent African Americans from voting.
What were literacy tests?
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot began partly because of false accusations published where?
What are newspapers?
This man became Atlanta’s first Black millionaire after founding an insurance company.
Who was Alonzo Herndon?
Promoted the idea that the South should diversify its economy, expand industry, and grow beyond its agricultural past.
Who was Henry Grady?
This phrase described Atlanta after its rebuilding from the Civil War.
What is “rise from the ashes”?
This tactic made voting difficult by requiring payment before voting.
What is a poll tax?
The long-term effect of the 1906 riot was more of this.
What is deeper segregation?
His trial and conviction reflected antisemitism in Georgia, and his case later led to one of the most infamous lynchings in the state’s history.
Who was Leo Frank?
Grady’s critics said he focused too much on this city.
What is Atlanta?
The Bourbon Triumvirate wanted fewer government services and lower taxes for this reason.
What is to promote business and industry growth?
From 1882–1930, Georgia had 482 of these violent racial acts.
What were lynchings?
This governor commuted Leo Frank’s sentence, putting his own life at risk.
Who was John Slaton?
He ran for president and later became a white supremacist despite starting as a reformer.
Who was Tom Watson?