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Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Henry Grady used his newspaper column to support INDUSTRIAL GROWTH and AGRICULTURAL _____________.
Hint: Di______________________
Diversification (growing DIFFERENT crops)
to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.
What is disenfranchisement?
Supreme Court ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were equally funded; however, this was rarely the case.
Separate but Equal
a series of three large events (1881, 1885, and 1895) established to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.
International Cotton Exposition
lawyer, writer, and Populist politician from Georgia; he ended his career as a segregationist and anti-Semite; stirred up hatred for Leo Frank when case was in court.
Tom Watson
managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.” Wanted to lure Northern investors. Helped create Georgia Tech!
Henry Grady
laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans citizenship rights.
Jim Crow Laws
practice of forcing people of different racial groups to be separate, to live apart, go to spate schools, and use separate public facilities.
Segregation
period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.
The New South
leader who promoted the idea that African-Americans should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality. Gave famous Atlanta Compromise speech.
Booker T. Washington
The Articles of Confederation were a BAD first constitution, but a strength was each _______ had a strong government.
STATE
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.
Literacy Test
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.
Plessy v Ferguson
a short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and African-Americans. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.
Populist Party
African American founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company. Owned successful barber shop burned in ATL Race Riot.
Alonzo Herndon
This person helped created Georgia Tech University
Henry Grady
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote.
Poll Tax
Trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan and found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence.
Leo Frank Case
What political party fought to create Jim Crow laws and keep things separate
Southern Democrats
Co-Founder of the NAACP. Wanted immediate change and equality for African Americans NOW. Educated at Harvard University.
W.E.B. DuBois
Born a slave and later owned 3 barbershops in Atlanta in 1904. Started Atlanta Life Insurance Association
*Atlanta's first African American millionaire*
Alonzo Herndon
Which event resulted in white mobs killing and wounding dozens of blacks, and was caused by Atlanta newspapers' untrue reports that black men were attacking white women?
1906 Atlanta Riot
opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, especially Jews.
Antisemitism
a system of racial casting in the South after the Civil War
Jim Crow Laws