Combined: GA History Unit 2B

Question 1

Which are facts related to W.E.B. Dubois? Select (2) that apply.

Accepted Answer

Was born free and grew up in Massachusetts, Had an aggressive approach to gaining civil rights

Question 2

Which social issues needed to be addressed during the Progressive Era? Select (3) that apply.

Accepted Answer

racial inequality, women's lack of rights, worker's lack of rights

Question 3

Why was Homer Plessy arrested?

Accepted Answer

for sitting in a white train compartment

Question 4

Period of time defined by rapid economic growth.

Accepted Answer

Gilded Age

Question 5

Which were policies of the Bourbon Democrats? Select (3) that apply.

Accepted Answer

attracting northern industry with the promise of cheap labor, curbing the rights of African Americans, building the railroad

Question 6

What was responsible for Georgia’s expansive development in the late 1880s?

Accepted Answer

industrial growth

Question 7

the right to vote, often used in connection with extending the franchise to women

Accepted Answer

suffrage

Question 8

American writers of fiction and nonfiction who exposed the inequalities experienced in business and politics

Accepted Answer

muckrakers

Question 9

What were factors of industrial growth in Georgia in the early 1900s? Select (3) that apply.

Accepted Answer

People were needed to work the farms, mills, and factories, Black businesses were established to serve Atlanta’s growing population., Grocery stores and trading posts were needed to support people

Question 10

Which is a prime reason that farmers felt they were being neglected by the policies of the Bourbon Democrats?

Accepted Answer

Democrats favoritism toward industry contributed to debt for small farmers

Question 11

the belief that the white race is superior to others and should control government and society

Accepted Answer

white supremacy

Question 12

State government would lease persons convicted of serious crimes to railroads and other private companies for a fee

Accepted Answer

convict lease system

Question 13

What strategies were used in Georgia in the 1900s to disenfranchise African Americans. Select (3) that apply.

Accepted Answer

white primary, literacy test, poll tax

Question 14

ruling that separate public facilities for white & black people were legal as long as they were equal in character

Accepted Answer

separate but equal doctrine

Question 15

provision allowing former Confederate soldiers & their male descendants to vote without having to take a literacy test

Accepted Answer

grandfather clause

Question 16

What happened in the summer of 1914 that contributed to the coming of World War I?

Accepted Answer

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Question 17

The expansion of _____ was a major factor in the growth of towns. Atlanta in particular benefited from it.

Accepted Answer

railroads

Question 18

What were the reasons Atlanta was called the "Gate City of the South." Select (3) that apply.

Accepted Answer

Atlanta was temporary home to many politicians and govt. workers, Sales reps found Atlanta an exciting place to stay while traveling South, Ambitious entrepreneurs found many opportunities there

Question 19

What are the laws called that are passed that seek to disenfranchise African American people?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

What was the progressive movement?

Accepted Answer

a reform movement that sought to move society forward by improving it

Question 21

taking away the right to vote

Accepted Answer

disenfranchisement

Question 22

Reform to prevent children from working in factories and set basic standards for the employment of children.

Accepted Answer

Child Labor

Question 23

Reform granting women the right to vote

Accepted Answer

Women's Suffrage

Question 24

Three Democrats who controlled the governor’s office and Georgia's U.S. Senate seats after Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

Bourbon Triumvirate

Question 25

The Populist Party was made up of

Accepted Answer

mostly farmers and labor workers

Question 26

Why did the United States enter World War I? Choose (2) that apply.

Accepted Answer

U.S ships were attacked by Germany., Germany sent a telegraph to Mexico suggesting they go to war with US.

Question 27

forbidding the manufacture, sale, or use of alcoholic beverages

Accepted Answer

prohibition

Question 28

What is the basic purpose of 14th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

protect & guarantee rights of American citizenship regardless of race

Question 29

election for national, state, & local offices typically held in November of even-numbered years

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general election

Question 30

Reform to abolish convict lease system and provide prisoners with better conditions.

Accepted Answer

Prison Reform

Question 31

What was the New South philosophy?

Accepted Answer

a philosophy that the Southern economy should become more industrialized

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 33

a tax on the right to vote. At one time, Georgians had to pay a yearly tax of $1 to vote.

Accepted Answer

poll tax

Question 34

Why did American leaders’ initially refuse to enter World War I?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to maintain the country’s policy of neutrality.

Question 35

Which are facts related to Booker T. Washington? Select (2) that apply.

Accepted Answer

Maintained a philosophy of gradual “accommodation”, Believed in vocational education for blacks

Question 36

a statewide election held by a political party to choose its candidates for general election

Accepted Answer

primary election

Question 37

What was the Great Migration of 1914?

Accepted Answer

Mass exodus of Blacks from Georgia due to intense discrimination & violence

Question 38

a test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

Accepted Answer

literacy test

Question 39

The US joined the war in 1917, on the side of the ____, which included ___. Choose (2) that apply.

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, France, and Russia, Allied Powers

Question 40

Reform aimed at enforcing “proper” moral behavior by trying to stop the sale of liquor in Georgia.

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 41

What was the outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case?

Accepted Answer

facilities for blacks & whites would remain segregated but equal

Question 42

a primary election to white voters only

Accepted Answer

white primary

Question 43

Period of recovery following the Civil War when the country was focused on reintegrating the South into the Union

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 44

laws that enforced segregation in public places

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws

Question 45

Which of the following contributed to the rise of the Populist Party?

Accepted Answer

a sense of discontent and inequality felt by farmers and laborers

Question 46

Which is the best definition of an entrepreneur?

Accepted Answer

a person who starts a business

Question 47

A time of great political and social reform across America.

Accepted Answer

Progressive Era

Question 48

Which side won World War I?

Accepted Answer

Allied Forces - Britain, France, Russia, US

Combined: GA History Unit 2B

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Combined: GA History Unit 2B

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