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| Who were the 3 people involved in the Bourbon Triumvirate? |
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| Jospeh Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John Gordon |
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| What was the purpose of the Bourbon Triumvirate? |
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| To keep Georgia traditions including white supremacy while building new traditions around industry in north. |
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| What did Colquitt and Gordon do for GA? |
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| They helped reduce the amount of GA debt |
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| Who was Henry Grady and what did he do? |
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| He was the editor of the Atl. Constitution and he came up with the term the 'New South.' He also wanted to replace agriculture economy with an industrical economy. |
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| What was the International Cotton Exposition? |
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| It highlighted Georgia's economic recovery and lure northern investors. |
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| What did Tom Watson and the Populists do? |
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| They supported poor people and farmers. |
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| What did Tom Watson introduce? |
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| The Rural Free Delivery bill. Which delivered mail to homes free of charge. |
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| She was a leader in the suffrage (gave women the right to vote) and went against to Bourbon Triumvirate. She was the 1st woman to serve in the US Senate. |
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| Explain the Leo Frank Case. |
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| At the time Jews were thought less of than Blacks. Leo Frank was a Jew accused of killing a girl he worked with. He was then hung. |
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| What was the County Unit System and what did it do? |
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| Gave rural areas more power instead of the urban black counties. |
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| What did the Jim Crow Laws do? |
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| They tried to make blacks seperate. |
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| What was Plessy v. Ferguson? |
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| Plessy was 7/8 white and 1/8 black and got on the white train. He was kicked off and sent to the black cart. He took his case to supreme court. This resulted in creating the term 'seperate but equal' and helped to make segregation legal. |
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| What does Disenfranchisement mean? |
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Definition
| To stop someone from voting? |
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| What were the 4 ways that they tried to keep Blacks from voting? |
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| Grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test, and gerrymander |
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| Describe the grandfather clause. |
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| If your grandfather was able to vote in the 1860's you could vote. |
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| You had to pay a small fee to vote. |
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| Describe the literacy test. |
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| You had to be ble to read a passage to vote. |
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| They drew up election districts that would favor a certain group. |
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| What did Booker T. Washington do? |
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| He believed that economic independence was the only way to equality. He gave the Atlanta Compromise speech which said that if they would all work together they would learn to be equal. |
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| What did W.E.B Dubois do? |
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Definition
| He came up with the 'Talented Tenth' idea to educate the top 10% of black population to become leaders. He also helped found the NAACP. |
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| What did John and Lugenia Burns Hope do? |
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| John was a civil leader and Lugenia organized the neighborhood union which created organizations such as the Boys and Girls club. |
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| What did Alonzo Herndon do? |
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Definition
| He created the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company which he bought for 140 dollars. |
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| What role did Georgia play in World War One? |
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| Georgia had many Textile Mills that made uniforms and farmers who grew crops. The canned food industry was also started during this time. |
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