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| He was the 17th president. Took charge of Reconstruction. Pardoned members of the confederacy and created terms which confederate states could be readmitted to the union. |
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| They opposed the Fugitive Slave Act and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They were not in favor of slavery. Rufus Bullock was this. |
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| Designed to protect the interest of former slaves by congress |
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| Set up during the Civil War to promote loyalty to the confederacy |
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| the state legislature expelled twenty-eight newly elected members because they were at least one-eighth black. Among those removed was southwest Georgia representative Philip Joiner. On September 19, Joiner, along with northerners Francis F. Putney and William P. Pierce, led a twenty-five-mile march of several hundred blacks and a few whites from Albany to ______, the Mitchell County seat, to attend a Republican political rally. |
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| From 1868 through the early 1870s the ____________functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The _____'s goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era. |
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| First Republican governor. The last governor before the redemption of Radical Reconstructionism. Fled to avoid impeachment. |
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| Georgia Constitution of 1865 |
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| prohibited slavery and limited the governor to two terms |
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| Georgia Constitution of 1868 |
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| - Governor’s term was increased to four years. Suffrage was expanded to all male citizens and the pardon power was given to the governor |
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| civil rights to all citizens/black suffrage |
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| prohibited discrimination against voters |
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| the end of Radical Reconstruction. Ended when the Democrats regained control in Georgia. |
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| Rufus Bullock defeated this democratic candidate in the gubernatorial race. He was the grand dragon of the KKK. Served as governor from 1886-1890. He was a part of the Bourbon Triumvirate. |
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| Civil War governor of Georgia. Received a pardon from Andrew Johnson after the war was over. Part of the Bourbon Triumvirate. |
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| published an editorial in the Herald entitled "The New South," in which he advocated industrial development as a solution to the postwar South's economic and social troubles. He became editor of the Atlanta Constitution where he continued to write his political opinions. |
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| Northern business investing in the south written by “Henry Grady” |
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| people were unhappy with the Bourbons dominating the Democratic Party. |
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| Alliance of farmers to receive loans and pay their debt back after their crops emerged. This made many farmers go into increasing debt and lose their farms. |
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| Farm on someone else’s land and they got part of your crop or profit |
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| white farmers who formed to solve financial problems in farming. Issues at the forefront of their platform included the reclamation of large tracts of land granted to corporations, the abolition of national banks, an opposition to paper money, an end to speculation on farm commodities, and a decrease in taxes levied on low-income citizens. |
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| founded during Civil War, leader Tom Watson. Formed on the goals of the Farmer’s alliance. |
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| leader of the farmer’s alliance, although he never formally joined the group. Began to distance himself from the Democratic party. Was nominated as the Populist’s or People’s Party candidate, but lost to his democratic opponent. |
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| blacks were denied access in white places/ segregation laws |
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| believed in the migration back to Africa. Promoted voluntary colonization. He was a preacher and a lawyer. Served in the 1867 constitutional convention. |
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| believed in higher education leading to the creation of the talented ten or the "exceptional men" of the black race would be the ones to lead the race and save it from its criminal problems. Founding member of the NAACP. |
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| Booker T. Washington and the "Atlanta Compromise" |
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| He advocated gradual steps towards equality. He argued that Africans had to prove themselves first and should get industrial jobs (unlike the higher education argument). This was a speech that he gave. |
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| riot that took place during the governor’s election. white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of mob violence |
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| pay or annual fee in order to vote |
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| limited the ability of black participation in politics |
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| civil rights organization. Goals were suffrage and civil rights. |
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| first two decades of the 20th century. clean up government from corruption. Major areas of economic, social, and moral reform among southern states included prohibition, woman suffrage, the regulation of child labor, campaigns to abolish the convict lease system and reform the penal system, and expansion of educational opportunities and social services for marginalized groups. Paradoxically, the disfranchisement of black voters was considered a reform southern states who felt that it eliminated a major source of electoral corruption; segregation (or Jim Crow) laws imposed |
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| Georgia governor progressive, Atlanta Lawyer, Goal was to improve society, create better schools, and clean up government. Publisher of Atlanta Journal, and served as Georgia’s governor. |
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| progressive, supporter of women’s right to vote and a supporter of lynching to protect white commonhood. First women to serve in the senate. Introduced to politics by her husband. Wrote a “dear abby” type article for the Atlanta Journal. |
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| gave women the right to vote |
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| after slavery became illegal, citizens could rent prisoners to do work for them during reconstruction |
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| an insect that came to Georgia from the South West that destroyed the Cotton |
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| 1921 governor of Georgia. He was a lawyer that became well known after the Leo Frank case. Implemented many education reforms. His initiatives began a drop in the illiteracy rate and established much-needed reforms for the state's lagging educational system. |
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| was a Jewish factory owner in Atlanta. He murdered one of his female employees. When his sentence was commuted, a mob kidnapped and lynched him. |
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| part of the Niell Primary Act. Votes were allotted based upon your county. Cities received the most with 6 units, towns received 4, and rural 2. Because of this politicians spent little time campaigning in the rural areas and were not worried about the popular vote. |
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| an author that wrote books about the poor whites and blacks in the rural south. Most famous for “Tobacco Road” and “God’s Little Acre” |
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| progressive, supporter of women’s right to vote and a supporter of lynching to protect white commonhood. First women to serve in the senate. Introduced to politics by her husband. Wrote a “dear abby” type article for the Atlanta Journal. |
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| Served three terms as governor. Was elected for a fourth term but died before it started. He opposed the “New Deal.” |
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| Wrote “Strange Fruit,” a book about interracial love. She was one of the first prominent white southerner to denounce segregation and Jim Crow laws. |
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| In his first term, Rivers brought a "Little New Deal" to Georgia and presided over a significant expansion of state services. By the end of his second term,____and his administration were awash in charges of corruption. _______gained the governorship initially as the anti-Talmadge, pro–New Deal candidate. Yet he used many of the same heavy-handed tactics that his predecessor had made infamous, including the use of the National Guard to resolve political disputes with state agencies. He was active in the KKK. Provided free textbooks in the school. Borrowed money using bonds. |
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| new programs implemented by FDR created to jump start the economy and create jobs during the great depression |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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| regulated how much farmers could plant in exchange for money from the governor |
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| developed electricity for people in the countryside. It was part of the “Little New Deal” by E.D. Rivers |
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| African Americans left the south and headed north |
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| began functioning in the spring of 1943, ____ employees supplied the U.S. Army Air Forces with 663 Boeing-designed B-29s, the first of which were delivered before the end of the year. The government-owned plant closed immediately after the end of World War II (1941-45) and sat idle until 1951, when it became home to Lockheed-Georgia (later Lockheed Martin |
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| served four years as governor. Was one of the most progressive governors. Paid off the state’s debt. Youngest governor in the nation at the time. Ran against Eugene Talmadge for governor and won based on Talmadge causing the state universities to lose their accreditation. |
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| was the name of the post-war campaign by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to unionize industry in the Southern United States, particularly the textile industry |
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| began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans. |
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| American white supremacy organization |
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| - served six terms as governor. Served on the Atlanta Aviation committee. Was responsible for adding lights to the runway so planes could run 24 hours. Promoted Atlanta for a regional aviation location. Atlanta schools integrated while he was in office. |
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| SNCC- student non violent coordinating committee |
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| . It was formed to support student protest. Concentrated in Atlanta and Albany |
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| SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| lead by MLK Jr. Created after WWII and after African Americans had served aboard. Active in the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Committee. Major leader in the civil rights movement. |
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| The son of , former governor, and also served as governor himself after his father’s death. The state’s first sales tax was initiated during his term. He was a segregationist. |
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| songs sung during the civil rights movement |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| made separate but equal unconstitutional |
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| Allowed the University of Georgia to desegregate after getting Federal orders, even though some of the state’s top leaders opposed him. |
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| was a segregationist that failed several times before being elected as governor. never finished high school. Backed prison reform and appointed more African Americans than any other governor before. Refused to lower flags to half mast when MLK Jr. died. |
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| It prohibited discrimination in public places |
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| prohibited discrimination against voting. It outlaws the use of literacy tests |
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| the only Georgian elected president. Ran for governor as the representative of the normal people. Invited segregationist Alabama governor, Wallace to speak, but when he was elected he said in his inaugural speech that it was time to desegregate. Created the balanced budget. |
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