New South Vocabulary

Question 1

to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship

Answer 1

Disenfranchisement

Question 2

48 hour riot in Atlanta where several African-Americans were killed

Answer 2

Atlanta Race Riot

Question 3

Disenfranchisement law that said if a person’s father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well

Answer 3

Grandfather Clause

Question 4

Laws that denied African-Americans citizenship rights

Answer 4

Jim Crow Laws

Question 5

Required voters to pass a reading and writing test to vote

Answer 5

Literacy Test

Question 6

Required voters to pay a fee to vote

Answer 6

Poll Tax

Question 7

Supreme Court case that said segregation is okay because it’s “separate but equal”

Answer 7

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

Question 8

Tactic used by whites in Georgia to keep black people voting - only whites could vote

Answer 8

White Primary

Question 9

Civil rights leader and professor who wanted immediate rights for black people

Answer 9

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 10

Founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company

Answer 10

Alonzo Herndon

Question 11

Political activist who advised black people to get economic freedom before rights

Answer 11

Booker T. Washington

Question 12

Joseph Brown

Answer 12

Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate

Question 13

Alfred Colquitt

Answer 13

Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate

Question 14

John Gordon

Answer 14

Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate

Question 15

A group of 3 politicians who dominated Georgia for 20 years

Answer 15

Bourbon Triumvirate

Question 16

Promoted the New South through his paper the “Atlanta Journal”; brought the Cotton Exposition to GA

Answer 16

Henry Grady

Question 17

Leader of the Populist Party ; supported the Farmer’s Alliance

Answer 17

Tom Watson

Question 18

Event that promoted Georgia’s technological growth after the Civil War

Answer 18

International Cotton Exposition

Question 19

Gave the “Atlanta Compromise” speech

Answer 19

Booker T. Washington

Question 20

An Act that required the delivery of mail to rural areas

Answer 20

Rural Free Delivery Act

Question 21

Speech that encouraged black people to gain economic freedom before fighting for rights

Answer 21

Atlanta Compromise Speech

Question 22

Owner of the “Crystal Palace” barber shop

Answer 22

Alonzo Herndon

Question 23

Born a slave ; became a civil rights activist who secretly donated to help black people

Answer 23

Booker T. Washington

Question 24

Created the “Talented Tenth”

Answer 24

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 25

Born a slave ; learned how to become a barber and became a millionaire

Answer 25

Alonzo Herndon

Question 26

A Jewish man convicted of murdering a 13 year old white girl

Answer 26

Leo Frank