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Events and Vocabulary
Misc
100
founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Who is Alonzo Herndon?
100
hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
What is antisemitism?
100
A Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
disenfranchisement law that said if a person’s father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well.
What is Grandfather Clause?
100
lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party with a progressive view of racial policies.
Who is Tom Watson?
200
Civil rights leader, President of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and gave the famous Atlanta Compromise speech. He believed social and political equality would come with improved economic conditions and education
Who is Booker T. Washington
200
period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.
What is the New South?
200
legislation proposed by Georgia Congressman Tom Watson that provided free mail delivery to rural areas of the country.
What is the Rural Free Delivery Act?
200
a short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.
What is the Populist Party?
200
white supremacist group
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.” A hospital in Atlanta was named for him.
Who is Henry Grady?
300
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote; this prevented poor blacks and whites from voting.
What is a poll tax?
300
an organization that worked for the rights of African Americans
What is the NAACP?
300
laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
300
election districts drawn up to divide the African American voters
What is Gerrymandering?
400
a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence.
Who is Leo Frank?
400
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.
What is a literacy test?
400
held in 1881, helped to show off the economic recovery of the South after Reconstruction
What is the International Cotton Exposition?
400
a system that provided convict labor to private parties such as railroad companies or plantation owners.
What is Convict Lease System
400
gives women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
500
civil rights leader and college professor at Atlanta University, be believed in action if African Americans and whites were to understand each other. He organized protests against segregation and discrimination.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
500
Supreme Court ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were equally funded; however, this was rarely the case
What is Separate but Equal?
500
48 hour uprising in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American or Black men attacking white women; several African-Americans or Blacks were killed.
What is Atlanta Race Riots of 1906?
500
speech made by Booker T. Washington and the International Cotton exposition which called for blacks to become proficient in agriculture, mechanics, and commerce, and for whites to trust blacks and provide opportunities for them to be successful economically
What is the Atlanta Compromise Speech?
500
three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
Who were the Bourbon Triumvirate?
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