Grade 8 Georgia Studies Unit 9: New South Era Quiz #1

Henry Grady: Beliefs

To industrialize Georgia and diversify Georgia’s agriculture. He advocated for a New South that moved away from reliance on cotton and embraced manufacturing and economic growth. His goals would be achieved through Northern Investors helping with financial aid.

Atlanta Constitution

Henry Grady’s Newspaper

International Cotton Exposition: Who started them and how many were there?

Henry Grady brought three major international cotton expositions to Atlanta.

What Benefits Did the Cotton Expositions Bring to Georgia?

These Cotton Expositions brought jobs, people, and money to Georgia/Atlanta, all of which had not been previously present. It promoted Atlanta’s rebuilding after the Civil War by luring Northern Investments into the city.

What did Cotton Expositions show off?

These expositions showed off Atlanta’s industrial capabilities and accomplishments.

Who was Tom Watson?

He promoted farmers and an industrial focus for Georgia’s Economy.

He supported sharecroppers and tenant farmers on political campaigns.

He criticized Henry Grady’s bias for the promotion of Atlanta.

He was a member of the Populist Party.

He created the Jeffersonian, a newspaper which disseminated his views of politics and social and economic causes.

What was the Populist Party?

A political party that consisted of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites that favored industrial companies.

Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for this party.

It supported changes in banking policies to benefit farmers’ government control of the railroads.

Jim Crow Laws

Laws created by state legislatures to deny African Americans/Black people citizenship rights.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a whites-only railroad car for being 1/8 black.

The case ruled “Separate, but equal.”

Black and White people were seperated in public facilities.

Disenfranchisement

Due to a lack of Federal Government enforcement, disenfranchisement began to rise at the voting polls.

Disenfranchisement was to deprive a person the right to vote or the rights of citizenship.

Poll Taxes

Voters were required to pay a tax to vote. This prevented poor white and blacks from voting.

An example of disenfranchisement.

White Primary

Stopped African Americans/Blacks from having a voice in primary elections.

An example of disenfranchisement.

Literacy Tests

Required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.

An example of disenfranchisement.

Grandfather Clause

States that if a person’s father was able to vote before the civil war, they would be able to vote as well.

NOT an example of disenfranchisement.