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Define Progressivism.
The movement for reform.
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Who was the first woman to serve as a U.S. senator?
Rebecca Latimer Felton.
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Where did Georgia suffragists participate in a parade?
Downtown Atlanta.
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True or False: Georgia ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on February 20, 1970.
True.
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What was one of the progressivism ideas that affected the most Georgians?
Women's voting.
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Define Suffrage.
The right to vote.
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What did Hoke Smith do?
He owned the Atlanta Evening Journal and was elected governor as a reformer.
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Where did progressivism begin?
In cities where urban, middle class, educated men and women began to call for reforms.
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True or False: In 1908, the state created the leasing out of businesses to prisoners.
False.
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When was the Smith Hughes Act?
1917
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Explain the Nineteenth Ammendment.
Added to the U.S. Constitution, saying women could not be discriminated against in voting.
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What did Walter George do?
He replaced Rebecca Latimer Felton after her one day in office of being Senator.
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Where was the newspaper that Hoke Smith owned located?
Atlanta, Georgia.
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What does NAWSA stand for?
National American Women's Suffrage Association
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What was introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
The ice cream cone and iced tea.
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Define Suffragists.
Those who supported the women's suffrage movement.
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Who was Mary Latimer McClendon?
She was one of the best known Georgia suffragists and the sister of Rebecca Latimer Felton.
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Where did the National American Women's Suffrage Association have its first nation-wide conference in 1895?
Atlanta, Georgia.
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What does WCTU represent?
Women's Christian Temperance Union
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What book was published in 1900 by L. Frank Baum?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Define The Smith-Hughes Act and tell what year it was passed.
Set up U.S. government support for vocational education in high schools in 1917.
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Who was Governor Thomas Hardwick?
He was the current governor when in 1922 Senator Tom Watson died with four years remaining in term. He then appointed Rebecca Latimer Felton.
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Where were the first five presidents of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia from?
In the first five years of the party's existence its presidents were from Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah.
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Who said "The women of this country have reason to rejoice?
Felton
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In the early 1900's, what were journalists and writers who wrote about the problems of American life called?
Muckrakers.