NEW SOUTH TEST

What is the New South Movement?

• Time after Reconstruction where the South reverted to slavery and grew only cotton.

• The time after the Civil War where the South recovered from the war.

• A time when the South was trying to industrialize and bring business to the region so that they could recover economically from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

.powerful political leaders in the post- reconstruction Era

.supported Henry Grady

.Developed railroad and mining industry

• Booker T. Washington

• Tom Waston

• The Bourbon Triumvirate

• Alonzo Herndo

What did supporters of Henry Grady favor? 

• growth of industry, manufacturing, and agricultural diversification in the South

• political overthrow of the Bourbon Triumvirate 

• support of Tom Watson and the Populists

• reconciliation of whites and blacks to work together 

Which of the following political parties might a cotton farmer in Georgia most likely support? 

• The Bourbon Democrats 

• The New South Democrats 

• The Populist Party

• The Republican Party

The main purpose of Georgia's three cotton expositions was to 

• to encourage people to move from slavery to growing other crops. 

• promote Georgia business and attract investors from the north

• encourage farmers to send their cotton to Georgia to be processed.

• encourage workers to come to the state.

Who is being described by the list below? 

Started in politics with the Farmer's Alliance

Leader of the Populist Party 

Friend to black sharecroppers and poor white farmers at the beginning of his career

Sponsored a law creating rural free delivery of mail

• Tom Watson

• Henry Grady 

• Booker T. Washington

• John B. Gordon

Which of the following are true of the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906? Choose TWO of the following. 

• Dozens of blacks were killed.

• Blacks worried that whites were taking jobs away from them.

• The riots began due to untrue articles being printed in the newspapers about black crime.

• Blacks used violence to protest racial inequality. 

What does the term "Jim Crow" describe? 

• Laws used to keep blacks separate from whites in public. 

• Favors given to the Crow family in Georgia.

• The decision to commemorate WWI veterans. 

• Orders issued by Governor Jim Crow after Reconstruction.

Literacy Tests were an effective way to prevent blacks from voting because

• most blacks didn't speak English.

• most blacks weren't able to "read and write" so they couldn't pass the tes

• blacks weren't allowed to use the grandfather clause.

• blacks had to pay a tax in order to vote.

Which of these was an effect of the US Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? 

• Many blacks were required to work in the fields. 

• The ruling of "separate but equal' was upheld. 

• Blacks had equal access to a college education for the first time. 

• Many blacks were small business owners.