Georgia in Civil War
Label the two sides of this war:
____________________
____________________
North (Union)
South (Confederacy)
The ______ Amendment gave African-Americans (newly freed slaves) citizenship and equal protection under the law
14th
Alfred H. Colquitt, Joseph E. Brown, and John B. Gordon were in the ____________________, a group of powerful men who shared their power over Georgia, supported industrialization, and encouraged Northern businesses to invest in the South.
Bourbon Triumvirate
What are the two reasons America (Georgia) joined the war?
Sinking of the Lusitania
2. Zimmerman Telegram
The ____________________ Act allowed the United States to sell or loan war materials to any country whose security was important to the defense of the U.S.
Lend Lease
Southern states (especially in SC) believed that states should have the right to decide which federal laws they should or should not follow, which was called the ____________________.
Nullification act
Laws created to prevent African-Americans from voting, testifying against whites in court, or serving on a jury were called _______________.
Black Codes
Leo Frank's case helped shine a light on the ____________________ (hatred for Jews) views that Southerners felt.
anti-semitic
n 1915, the __________, a cotton-eating insect, infested cotton farms in the southeast, destroying the agriculture economy.
Boll Weevil
On December 7th, 1941, ____________________, Hawaii was the target of a surprise attack by Japan, causing America to join the war.
Pearl Harbor
The ________________ was a law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and returned to their owner.
Fugitive Slave Act
The ____________________ was a federal agency that provided medicine and healthcare,education, and work to newly freed slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
____________________, the leader of the Populist Party (People’s Party, formed from the split of the Democratic Party), helped pass the Rural Free Delivery bill for the poor, rural farmers that supported him.
Tom Watson
In 1929, the Great Depression began with the ____________________, where stock prices were at an all-time low, which also led to bank failures, an overproduction of agricultural goods, and a reduction in purchasing.
Stock Market Crash
The ____________________ in Marietta, Georgia made more B-29 bombers than any other factory.
Bell Bomber Plant
A slave sued for his freedom, but lost; in this case, the ________________, the judge ruled that slaves were property and didn’t have rights, making all states slave states!
Dred Scott Case
Farmers who agreed to work on a landowners’ property in exchange for land, but were able to provide their own equipment, in exchange for a portion of their crop is called a _________________________
Tenant Farmer
The Supreme Court case __________________ legalized state-ordered segregation under the motto “separate, but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
President ____________________, president who developed the New Deal, came to Warm Springs to help manage his polio.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
U.S. Senator ____________________, chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, helped to bring major military bases to Georgia.
Richard B. Russell Jr.
________________, a Union General, marched through Georgia on his Atlanta Campaign to destroy the state’s capital and gain control of the railroad hub, then in his March to the Sea, destroyed everything on his way to Savannah, which he captured and gave to President Lincoln as a Christmas present.
William Tecumseh Sherman
What were the three Reconstruction Plans:
Lincoln's Plan
Johnson's Plan
Congressional Plan
Explain the following forms of ____________________:
Poll tax: ________________________________
Literacy test: ________________________________
Grandfather clause: ________________________________
Disenfranchisement
1. Poll tax: voters paid money in order to vote
2. Literacy test: had to take and pass a reading/ writing test
3. Grandfather clause: if grandfather could vote before Civil War, you can, too
Name the four New Deal programs designed to help Americans get out of the Great Depression:
1.
2.
3.
4.
1. Civilian Conservation Corps
2. Rural Electrification Act
3. Agricultural Adjustment Act
4.Social Security Administration
__________, a government headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism (loyalty), racism, and denies individual freedoms.
Fascism