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This was the organization which aimed to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
100
This was the year the 13th amendment went into affect.
What is 1865?
100
This was the former Georgia lawyer who fought for the rights of farmers and disagreed with the decision that Leo Frank should be pardoned.
Who is Tom Watson?
100
This is the name of the city in Georgia where the Ku Klux Klan was believed to have been reformed after Mary Phagan's death.
What is Stone Mountain?
100
This is the name of the political party that discouraged blacks from voting after Reconstruction.
Who is democratic?
200
This was the first African American to be voted into the Georgia house of representatives.
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
200
This change to the law abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
This was the first female to be a Georgia and U.S. senator.
Who is Rebecca Felton?
200
This is the name of the event held in Georgia after reconstruction to encourage the sell of Georgia natural resources.
What is the International Cotton Exposition?
200
This is the job many freedmen took described by farming someone else's land only to receive a small portion of the harvest in return.
What is sharecropping?
300
This is the state song of Georgia.
What is "Georgia on my Mind"?
300
This is the name of the terrorist group which sought out to scare blacks from exercising their rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This was the Georgia writer and editor who encouraged the use of the phrase "New South".
Who is Henry Grady?
300
This is the name of the violent event that occurred in Georgia leaving 12 people dead as a result of racial rumors
What is the 1906 Atlanta Riot?
300
These are described by laws made to discriminate against blacks and limit their rights after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
This is the name of those who were no longer slaves after the Civil War.
What is a freedman?
400
This change in the law gave freedmen the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
This was the Jewish man accused of killing a 13 year old girl in a Georgia factory.
Who is Leo Frank?
400
This the organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois designed to fight for the rights of blacks after Reconstruction.
What is the NAACP? (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
400
This is the separation of a population by race.
What is segregation?
500
This is the name of the janitor who was a suspect in the Mary Phagan murder and also testified in the case.
Who is Jim Conley?
500
This change in the law gave citizenship to blacks.
What is the 14th amendment?
500
This is the name of the group of three men who changed Georgia politics and economics.
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
500
This is the name of the case in which a biracial man was arrested for sitting in a "whites only" section of a stagecoach.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
This was the beetle type insect that was responsible for eating seeds and destroying cotton plants in Georgia during the Great Depression.
What is the boll weevil?