Georgia in the 20th Century Pt. 1

Question 1

Laws passed to establish separate-but-equal facilities for different races were called

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws

Question 2

Which group would NOT have supported Rebecca Latimer Felton?

Accepted Answer

Supporters of Convict-Lease System

Question 3

The Populist Party did NOT support _________________________.

Accepted Answer

private ownership of railroads and utilities

Question 4

Which countries were allies (on the same side) in WWI?

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, France, United States, Russia

Question 5

Which Supreme Court decision in 1954 ended the separat-but-equal laws found throught the South?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 6

Which Supreme Court decision made separate-but-equal, or segregated, schools legal?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 7

Booker T. Washington did NOT believe ________________

Accepted Answer

truth and knowledge would help races accept one another.

Question 8

What led President Wilson to ask Congress to declare war on the Central Powers in WWI?

Accepted Answer

the Zimmermann telegram

Question 9

What GA leader coined the phrase New South in describing the state?

Accepted Answer

Henry W. Grady

Question 10

What Populist politician best known for the Rural Free Delivery Bill was _________

Accepted Answer

Tom Watson

Question 11

The Bourbon Triumvirate might have described the Redemption period as __________________

Accepted Answer

Blending new and old (KKK and industrialization.

Question 12

Which voting regulation was NOT designed to prevent African Americans from voting?

Accepted Answer

Meeting a residence requirement.

Question 13

Rebecca Latimer Felton focused on ____________ when she wrote for the Atlanta Journal.

Accepted Answer

GA's prison system

Question 14

Why were Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt, & John Gordon known as the Bourbon Triumvirate?

Accepted Answer

They were drawn together by power and political goals

Question 15

What explains the growth of GA's textile industry in the late 1800's?

Accepted Answer

Water sources, railroads, cotton,& seaports = $$

Question 16

Which amendment to the U.S. constitution gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 17

The secret organization that tried to keep freedmen from exercising their civil rights?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 18

A prominent agricultural movement of the New South Period was _____________

Accepted Answer

the Farmer's Alliance

Question 19

Which organization was NOT established to bring about racial equality?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 20

What was NOT true about Georgia's county unit system?

Accepted Answer

United, large counties could decide elections.

Questions 20