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Question 1

A riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of african men attacking white women.

Answer 1

Atlanta race riot

Question 2

This was a group of three powerful Georgian politicians ( Joseph e brown, Alfred h colquitt, John b Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics 20 years after civil war

Answer 2

Bourbon triumvirate

Question 3

A voting system used in Georgia that gave more power to its rural county’s

Answer 3

County unit system

Question 4

When a person is deprived the right to vote or rights of citizenship

Answer 4

Disfranchisement

Question 5

This was a disfranchisement law that said if a persons father could vote before the civil war, they would be able to vote as well

Answer 5

Grandfather clause

Question 6

A series of 3 large event (1881,1885,1895) established to display atlantas growth and industrial capability and lure northern investment into Georgia to help eco.

Answer 6

International Cotton expositions

Question 7

These laws were created by state legislatures to deny African Americans citizenship rights

Answer 7

Jim Crow laws

Question 8

A disfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing in order to vote

Answer 8

Literacy test

Question 9

This is the period after reconstruction where political and community leaders in the south sought to diversify georgias economy and bring northern technology and investments into Georgia

Answer 9

New south

Question 10

A disfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote. This prevented poor blacks and whites from voting

Answer 10

Poll tax

Question 11

A political party made up of farmers that weren’t hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. Georgia Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party

Answer 11

Populist party

Question 12

This was Supreme Court ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were equally funded.

Answer 12

Separate but equal

Question 13

This was a Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine thus
promoting segregation

Answer 13

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 14

Anti-Jewish; This is when people are prejudice against people simply because of their religion
being Jewish.

Answer 14

Anti semitism

Question 15

This is the court case of the Jewish northerner that owned a factory in Atlanta. A girl he
employed was murdered and he was given an unfair trial. Though the verdict wasn’t changed
to ‘innocent’, he was pardoned about 70 years after he was hanged.

Answer 15

Leo frank case

Question 16

Tactic used by whites in Georgia to prevent blacks from voting in the Democratic primary;
because Georgia was a one party state, this prevented African-Americans or Blacks from
having a voice in elections

Answer 16

White primary