Modern Georgia
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended __________________ in public places.
What is segregation?
Georgia's current governor.
Who is Bryan Kemp?
The right given in 1920, with the ratification of the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the right to vote for women?
A small thing that caused Georgia's cotton crops to die.
What is the boll weevil?
Sharecroppers had to share their harvest with them in exchange for land to farm on.
What is Landowners?
Mayor of Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics
Georgia's legislative branch
What is the Georgia General Assembly?
A voting qualification that was designed to prevent African Americans from voting that was based on reading skill.
What is a Literacy Test?
The series of programs and laws passed by FDR in order to try and help pull the US out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Brought lots of new business to Georgia and coined the them, "the New South." He has a hospital named after him.
Who is Henry Grady?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is associated with the
What is The March on Washington?
The common name for the division of the 3 branches and their associated jobs.
What is separation of powers?
A man who believed in slowly achieving economic equality before pursuing social and political equality.
Who is Booker T Washington?
The number of jobs the Bell Bomber Plant brought to Georgia.
What is 30,000?
The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is to help former slaves and poor whites?
The focus of the Albany Movement in Georgia was to ____________ the whole town.
What is integrate?
Juvenile and Magistrate courts do not have ________.
What is a jury?
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
Georgia governor and senator who favored a strong Navy in the US and created the National School Lunch Program.
Who is Richard Russell (Jr)?
The violent racist group, known for wearing white hoods and burning crosses on peoples' lawns.
What is the KKK?
The Civil Rights group involved with the Albany Movement.
What is Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The main power of the judicial branch.
What is to interpret laws?
The commonly used shorthand for the ruling in Plessy V Ferguson
The attack that led the US to join WWII
What is Peral Harbor?
Congressional reconstruction required the rewriting of state constitutions, a pledge to the union and the signing of this amendment to the US Constitution.
What is the 14th Amendment?