The New South
Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon made up what group?
The Bourbon Triumvirate
What laws required that Blacks and whites attended separate schools, drank from separate water fountains, attended separate churches, etc?
Jim Crow Laws
Which event resulted in white mobs killing and wounding dozens of Blacks, and was caused by local newspapers' untrue reports that Black men were attacking white women?
the Atlanta Race Riot
Why was Georgia important to the United States during World War I?
The state had many federal installations and training camps.
Americans were out of work and needed jobs, so this was created.
The New Deal
Who was a newspaper editor that noticed Georgia wasn't living up to its economic potential?
Henry Grady
What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?
To create as much division between the races as possible.
A U.S. educator, reformer, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
What two main agricultural factors contributed to the Great Depression?
the boll weevil and drought
Which city was the site of FDR's "Little White House" in Georgia?
Warm Springs, Ga
What event allowed people to share information in a time without television and radio?
International Cotton Expo
All examples of what?
Disenfranchisement
A scholar, author, and sociologist who promoted the rights of black Americans.
W.E.B. DuBois
Overproduction in industry and agriculture, war debts, and the stock market crash were all causes of what?
The Great Depression
Created to support retirees over the age of sixty-five.
Social Security Act (SSA)
What was the main purpose of Atlanta's playing host to the International Cotton Expositions?
They hoped to show that Atlanta had many different economic capabilities.
What Supreme Court Case upheld segregation and made it the law of the land?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Owned and operated 3 barbershops in Atlanta in 1904 and was Atlanta's first African American millionaire.
Alonzo Herndon
What brought improved lives for many in Georgia but failed to end the depression.
The New Deal
Most of the rural areas of the southeast received electricity.
Rural Electrification Act (REA)
What politician and political party championed the cause of the poor white farmers who were struggling from debt and low cotton prices?
Tom Watson and the Populist Party
The purpose of "disenfranchisement" is to do what?
Deny suffrage.
What term is used to describe the hatred for the Jewish people and customs/culture?
antisemitism
The basic idea of the New Deal was that the "federal" or "state" government has a major responsibility for ensuring economic prosperity.
Federal
What politician opposed the increases in federal regulation caused by the New Deal.
Eugene Talmadge