What's new about the South
Belief that industry/manufacturing. rather than cotton was the future for the South.
What is the New South?
Segregation of blacks and whites in public places
What were Jim Crow laws?
Poll tax
Literacy tests
White Primary
What are examples of disfranchisement?
A disfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.
What were literacy tests?
Former slave, became a wealthy businessman in Atlanta. Entrepreneur.
Who was Alonzo Herndon?
The three men who were white supremacists, Democrats, who did not want social or political change only economic changes for the South
Who were Joseph B. Gordon, Alfred Colquitt and Joseph Brown?
Held in 1881 in Atlanta to bring money to Atlanta, help Atlanta's economic recovery and development after Reconstruction.
What was the International Cotton Exposition?
Outcome of the court case of Plessy v Ferguson.
What was "separate but equal"?
A disfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote; preventing poor blacks and whites from voting.
What was a poll tax?
Both believed in equality for African Americans. Disagreed on how to achieve it.
Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
Joseph B. Gordon, Alfred Colquitt and Joseph Brown
Who were the Bourbon Triumvirates?
grandfather clause, poll taxes, and literacy tests intended to ...
What was disenfranchise African Americans?
Competition between African Americans and whites for jobs caused racial tension. Whites concerned African American upper class was becoming too powerful.
A string of violent events where many African Americans were killed or wounded. Began because of untrue stories of white women being attacked.
What was the Atlanta Riot of 1906?
A tactic used by whites in Georgia to prevent blacks from voting in the Democratic primary. Georgia was a one party state.
What was the white primary?
Believed in economic equality. Then social and political equality would come. Learn a skill, technical schools,become independent.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Wanted economic ties with the North. Coined the term "New South".
Who was Henry Grady?
This political party was not happy with the New South. Members took a stand against unfair economic and political systems that benefited big businesses.
What was the Populists party?
These laws took away citizenship rights of African Americans.
What was Jim Crow?
Grandfather clause
good character
own 40 acres
Ways to be exempt from the literacy test?
Distrust of Northerners and widespread anti-Semitism against Jewish people
What was the Leo Frank case?
Legislation passed by Georgia Congressman Tom Watson
What is RFD?
10% of African Americans should be educated to cultivate a class of leaders.
What was the "Talented Tenth"?
disfranchised African American men
Who did laws prevent from voting?
To deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.
What is disfranchisement?
He was involved with the NAACP and the Niagara movement. Believed should fight for equality because of the 14th amendment. Social equality.
Who was W.E. B. DuBois?