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Held in Atlanta on three occasions, 1881, 1887, and 1895, what event was sponsored by boosters of the New South movement to showcase Georgia industry and encourage outside investment?
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World's Fair
The Olympic Games
Super Bowls
International Cotton Expositions
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Before serving four terms as governor of Georgia as a leader of the Bourbon Triumvirate, I went to Yale and was a lawyer and a judge. Who am I?
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Henry Grady
Joseph Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
John B. Gordon
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Held in Atlanta on three occasions, 1881, 1887, and 1895, what event was sponsored by boosters of the New South movement to showcase Georgia industry and encourage outside investment?
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Before serving four terms as governor of Georgia as a leader of the Bourbon Triumvirate, I went to Yale and was a lawyer and a judge. Who am I?
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"The farmer is the backbone of this nation. Today he is forgotten politically and isolated socially. Our party plans to fix that and to fix his isolation with rural free delivery across this great land." This quote advocating rural free delivery would MOST likely be from which New South Era Georgian and Populist leader?
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What do the following educational statistics from 1908 in Georgia indicate about the reality of "separate but equal" educational facilities?
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While born a slave, he was educated at Hampton Institute and made Tuskegee Institute the model for Black Colleges across the country. Who was he?
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With his barber shop and real estate empires, this Black Atlantan was already wealthy before he founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and became the first Black millionaire in Atlanta. Who was he?
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The techniques used to pursue this policy included the use of the poll tax, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause. What was the name of this political policy?
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What was the name given to the three men who led Georgia in the last decades of the nineteenth century? They pursued a policy of northern investment and white supremacy.
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He coined the phrase, "New South" to characterize his program of a southern economy balancing industry and agriculture. Who this voice of the New South?
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I was the youngest member of the Bourbon Triumvirate and was a newspaper correspondent before the Civil War. During the war, I was the highest ranking Georgian in the Confederate military and was rumored to be one of the leaders of the KKK in Georgia after the war. Who am I?
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What method of disfranchisement required voters to pay a fee to vote?
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The life story of Alonzo Herndon is a clear example of whose philosophy of self-help, hard-work, and thrift as a means of economic and social advance?
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He was a professor at Atlanta University, a founder of the NAACP, and the first black man to get a Ph.D. from Harvard. Who was he?
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What court case established the legality of the Jim Crow system of segregation?
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What was the name of the Jewish pencil factory manager found guilty of Mary Phagan's murder?
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The Leo Frank case highlighted the anti-Semitism in turn of the century Georgia. Anti-Semitism is hatred directed at what ethnic group?
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Homer Plessy brought a discrimination suit because of segregation in what part of southern society?
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What was the name of the large convention that attracted business leaders and investors to Atlanta to view the capital of the New South?
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Under this system of disenfranchisement, any male whose forefathers had been registered to vote in 1860, could vote. What was this means of disenfranchisement called?
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What political party was formed to represent interests of farmers in the South and West? The party's greatest accomplishment was the passage of the Rural Free Delivery Act.
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What political party was formed to represent interests of farmers in the South and West and challenged the white Democratic Party of the Bourbon Triumvirate in Georgia?
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Passed during the last decades of the nineteenth century, these statutes segregated the social institutions of the South. What was the name of these segregation laws?
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The Bourbon Triumvirate championed industry, white supremacy, and the continued political dominance of what major political party?
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What was the method of disenfranchisement required voters to pass a reading and writing exam?
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This final step in disenfranchisement of African American voters declared that no Black voters could participate in the Democratic Party's candidate nomination process. What was that method of disenfranchisement called?
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This group was reborn in Georgia during the turmoil surrounding the Leo Frank Case. Originally known as the Knights of Mary Phagan, they were anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic. What is the name of this organization?
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"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
This excerpt from the speech that became known as the "Atlanta Compromise" was given by what Black educational and business leader?
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Antisemitism is fear, hatred, and discrimination directed toward Jewish people. What case was fueled by and further inflamed antisemitism in Georgia and across the nation?
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What would be the BEST topic for an information card with the following bullets.
*graduate of the University of Georgia
*editor of the Atlanta Constitution
*promoted a vision of an industrial "New South"
*one of the founders of the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Alonzo Herndon was one of its early financial sponsors, and W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founders of what organization dedicated to social justice and racial equality?
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Shortly after Governor John Slaton "commuted" Leo Frank's sentence from death to life in prison, what happened to Frank?
