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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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Joseph Brown
Henry Grady
John B. Gordon
Alfred H. Colquitt
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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?
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Tom Watson
John B. Gordon
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
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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?
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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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Harrison Carter is now seventy-five years old and has trouble keeping up with the young workers at his job shoveling chicken poop at Davis Green's Egg Emporium. What New Deal program might provide Harrison with a pension to help him get by in his later years?
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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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This graph illustrates one of the three strikes facing southern farmers in the 1920s. Which of the three strikes is MOST clearly shown here?
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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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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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These farmers paid over half of their crops in return for working other men’s land. Alonzo Herndon worked his way from this status to millionaire business-owner. What is the name for this group of farmers?
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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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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?