Bourbon
What was Bourbon want?
Growth in industry businesses
Why were farmers facing hardships?
It was hard to find labor after slaves were freed. They started going further and further into debt and were suffering economically.
Why did he criticize the new south?
He claimed it still hurt farmers.
When was he the editor of the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper?
Between 1880-1899
What happened during the Jim Crow laws?
Segregation, depending on your race you couldn't drink out of the same fountains, use the same telephone booths, restrooms, hospitals, hotels, or schools.
What did the Bourbon Triumvirate want Georgia to become?
They wanted Georgia to become more self-sufficient by producing and manufacturing their own goods.
What was the Farmers Alliance?
an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and ’80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy. The movement was made up of numerous local organizations that coalesced into three large groupings.
When did Tom Watson begin his national political career?
Was a strong supporter of what?
industrial growth in the south
To ensure segregation
Georgia and many other southern states passed Jim Crow laws
Who was the three leaders of the bourbon triumvirate?
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
John B. Gordan
What were the Populists?
A political party that threatened to split the white vote and bring in black republicans.
What did he do in washington?
argued for poor farmers' issues
He believed what?
That southern farmers should forget the past and be like the north and create a new state based industry
What happened because of Jim Crow laws?
educational, economic and social growth for most southerners was stopped regardless of skin color.
The bourbons looked where for support?
They looked to the North for support because the South didn't have the funding ability to change the south.
What do populists have to do with farmers?
They urged the farmers to work together and to fight for their rights and industry.
Populist
What did he say the south was ready for?
To forgive and forget (they weren't)
Who was Homer Plessy?
A man that was jailed for sitting in the "whites only" section of a railcar in Louisiana because he was 1/8 black
The bourbon triumvirate focused on what?
Building new industries that allow Georgians to buy and sell goods within the state.
Populists supported what?
What did he do in 1896?
He helped pass the Rural Free delivery bill
Civil Rights groups disapproved of what
Grady's inaccuracy when portraying race relations in order to bring the Northern investors to the south