People/Groups
Who is described below:
Alonzo Herndon
Which amendment protects African American men's right to vote?
15th Amendment
What was the result of Plessy v Ferguson?
Separate but equal became legal
How did the Atlanta Race Massacre turn into a massacre?
White men and boys took to the streets to protest and quickly turned into a riot and then a massacre killing 12 people
What did the Leo Frank case demonstrate?
The effects of antisemisitism and resistance to racial equality
Who is described below:
Tom Watson
Define disenfranchisement
taking away a person's right to vote
preventing a person from exercising their right to vote
Who was Leo Frank and what was he accused of?
A Jewish factory supervisor and was accused of killing 13 year old Mary Phagan
List 3 ways African Americans were disenfranchised.
Property tax
Poll tax
Literacy tests
This political party’s focus on helping all farmers (regardless of race) could earn the vote of most black voters plus many white voters.
Populist Party
Who hosted the International Cotton Expo?
Henry Grady
In what way did the KKK disenfrachise Black people?
Intimidating and using violence to prevent Black people from voting
Surrounding the polls and using violence to prevent Black people from voting
Threats and violence
He was kidnapped from prison and hung in the street
List 3 causes of the Atlanta Race Massacre.
White people claiming Black people caused a rise in the crime rate
Newspapers writing articles about Black men allegedly assaulting white women
Hoke Smith running for governor on a platform to take away the Black vote
Who is responsible for Free Rural Mail Delivery in Georgia?
Tom Watson
Who would say:
“We should accept social separation for now rather than fight against segregation.”
Booker T. Washington
What laws prevented Black people from using the same public facilities as white people?
Jim Crow Laws
In Plessy vs Ferguson, the Supreme Court claimed that the 14th Amendment protected _________ & ________ rights but not ______________.
Political & Civil
Social Rights
What was the purpose of the International Cotton Exposition?
What do Georgia and California have in common geographically?
They both border an ocean
Who would say:
“I earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and I urge you to go to college and get a higher education too.”
WEB DuBois
Which Amendment did Plessy claim was violated by Jim Crow laws?
14th Amendment
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the US Supreme Court upheld the idea of "separate but equal." How did this affect African Americans at the time?
It resulted in the legalized creation of separate facilities for African Americans that were said to be equal.
People were killed (12)
Black businesses and neighborhoods were destroyed
Black men were assaulted
What was the outcome of the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln?
The South seceeded the Union and the Civil War began