I started the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and opened up a barbership called the Crystal Palace in downtown Atlanta. I was once a sharecropper but worked my way up to become one of the first black millionaires in Atlanta.
Who is Alonzo Herndon?
100
We were a group of white supremacist who were all governors of Georgia and favored the convict lease system. We were also Democrats who supported the New South movement by promoting the growth of industries such as railroads and coal mining.
Who is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
100
Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Japan, and eventually the United States.
Who are the Allied Powers?
100
Germany invaded Poland, fascism (rise of dictators like Adolf Hitler)
What are the reasons for the start of WWII?
100
I destroyed the cotton crop and caused a decrease in cotton production by 75 percent. I came to Georgia in 1915.
What is the boll weevil?
200
My wife and I fought for rights in Atlanta. I was the first black president of Morehouse College. My efforts led to the development of the Atlanta University. I believed in total equality with whites and disagreed with Booker T. Washington.
Who is John and Lugenia Burns Hope?
200
I was leader of the Populist party and fought for equal rights of black and white farmers.
Who is Tom Watson?
200
The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
What are the reasons that the U.S. entered the war?
200
These ships were built in Savannah and Brunswick during WWII, they transported soldiers and supplies to Europe and the Pacific.
What are Liberty Ships?
200
Bell Aircraft, Brunswick and Savannah shipyards, Fort Gordon(POW camps), Fort Benning, and Fort Stewart.
What is the ways that Georgia contributed to WWII?
300
This case provided a legal basis for "Separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
I was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. I was a strong supporter of woman's rights and campaigned against the convict lease system.
Who was Rebecca Latimer Felton?
300
Liibery bonds, military installations (forts) to train soldiers, making of uniforms and other needed supplies.
What is the ways that Georgia contributed to the war effort?
300
The Lend-Lease and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What are the reasons that the U.S. entered WWII?
300
These two men helped to attract defense contracts and military facilities to the state.
Who is Carl Vinson and Richard Russell?
400
Poll tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, White Primary
What are the ways that blacks were disenfranchised (kept from voting)?
400
I was Jewish pencil factory manager who was charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. I would be lynched for this crime but would be pardoned in death.
Who is Leo Frank?
400
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
What is the reason that WWI began?
400
Factory in Marietta that assembled the B29 bombers. It once had over 28,000 workers.
What is Bell Aircraft?
400
This New Deal program encouraged farmers to grow less cotton in hopes of improving the economy.
What is the AAA?
500
I believed that blacks should focus on learning skills and gaining economic strength and then equality would come later. I believed that blacks should start at the bottom and work thier way up.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
500
I came up with the phrase "New South" and I wanted Georgia to become more industrialized and to have a diversification of agriculture. I was also the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
Who is Henry Grady?
500
The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram
What is the reasons that the U.S. entered WWI?
500
Overproduction, Black Tuesday, Poor management of Banks, Uneven distribution of wealth, Failure of the national government to monitor businesses
What is the reasons for the Great Depression?
500
Laws passed in Georgia to separate blacks and whites.