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New South Study Guide
1.) Who were the members of the Bourbon Triumvirate? Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon
2.) Create one COMPLEX sentence that you think best describes the Bourbon Triumvirate and where this epithet (you may have to look it up again!) comes from. Mention the GOOD & the BAD!

The Bourbon Triumvirate were a group of three powerful politicians who controlled Georgia for over 20 years, promoting white supremacy and greater focus on industry.

3.) Which group developed in opposition to the Bourbon Triumvirate? Farmer’s Alliance – Populist Party (People’s Party)


Who led the group? Tom Watson
4.) Why is Tom Watson considered an ENIGMA (look it up!)?

He is a mystery(ENIGMA) because early in his career he sympathized with African American (particularly black farmers) and later he becomes a staunch white supremacist.
5.) Rebecca Latimer Felton fought for women's suffrage and the temperance movement. What does suffrage mean?
Right to vote.
6) Define temperance. Call for abstinence of alcohol.
7.) What is Mrs. Felton MOST KNOWN for? First female senator in the United States.
8.) Describe the following: 13th Amendment: Abolished slavery

14th Amendment: Gave rights of citizenship to all men.

15th Amendment: Guaranteed voting for all men.

18th Amendment: Prohibition

19th Amendment: Women’s right to vote.
9.) Describe the convict lease system. system of penal labor practiced in the south; provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations. The businesses was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners.

10.) Who started the phrase "The New South"? Henry Grady

11.) What was the concept of the “New South” supposed to mean?

The original use of the term "New South" was an attempt to prescribe an attractive future based on a growing economy, particularly industry. Also, it denoted the end of slavery.
12.) What was the reality of “New South”? Industry does become the focus but white supremacy still is the law of the land.

13.) What bill did Tom Watson help get passed in Congress that still benefits many of us today?


RFD – Rural Free Delivery Act – free delivery of mail to rural areas and farmers

14.) Define disenfranchisement. Loss of the vote


15.) What three word phrase best describes Jim Crow Laws? “separate but equal”

16.) How were blacks disenfranchised during the New South era? Give 5 examples of disenfranchisement used during the Jim Crow Era and describing them.



  • Poll Tax – tax put on voters in order to vote

  • Literacy Test – test to make sure you can read or write

  • Grandfather Clause – you were able to vote if your grandfather or father could vote in 1867. This helped poor whites who could not read/write or afford the poll tax

  • White Primary – Most elections were decided at the primary level (the election that voted for each party prior to the general election) in the South, mainly because most voters were democrats.

  • Gerrymandering – changing the boundaries of a voting/school district based on something that benefits certain people (usually based on race or economic standing)

17.) What 2 court cases bolstered (look it up) Jim Crow Laws in the United States? MAKE SURE TO DESCRIBE THEM!

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson – backs up the “Separate but equal” idea. IN an orchestrated event, Homer Plessy boards a train and says he is black (1/8). He refuses to move to the back. Goes to National Supreme Court. Court decided that social equality is not part of the 14th Amendment – de jure racial segregation in the U.S. is enacted. Plessy loses.

  • Cumming vs. Board of Education of Richmond Co. – Richmond County enacts a $45,000 tax to build a white high school. At the same time, they close the black high school. Three African American parents sue Richmond County. The Lower Court rules in favor of the three parents but the appeal is sent to the state and is overturned, stating that blacks are not required to attend school beyond the 8th grade. The parents appeal again and the National Supreme Court rules it is a state matter and refers to the State Decision.


19.) Describe the Leo Frank Case. Leo Frank was accused of killing Mary Phagan. He was found guilty though many believe he was falsely accused, mainly because he was Jewish and northerner. He is sentenced to death but that is overturned to a life sentence. Many Marietta, GA business man drive to Milledgeville, take him out of jail, bring him back to Marietta and lynch him. He was the only Jewish man ever lynched in the U.S.

20.) How was Tom Watson related to the Leo Frank Case? He wrote a lot anti-Semitic articles about Frank which many believe led to Leo’s lynching.


18.) Define segregation. to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from thegeneral body of society.
21.) What were the 2 main goals of the International Cotton Expo?

  • Promote southern economy, particularly industry


22.) Briefly describe the ATLANTA RIOT of 1906. Who did the 23.) Draw a picture of Atlanta Riot of 1906.

attacking and what businesses were attacked? Whites attack black



people and businesses (One of which was Alonzo Herndon’s barbershop)

Economic (real) cause? Blacks were moving higher politically and



Economically and this scared whites

Social (immediate) cause? Many FALSE accusations of black men



attacking white women were run in the local newspaper during an

election year
To highlight Atlanta as the resurgent capital of the South

24.) Explain the County Unit System, the dates it was in use, and why it violated the principal of “one man, one vote.”



It gave each county a certain amount of votes based on population. Each urban county got 6 votes and there were 8 of them. Each “town” county (b/w urban and rural) got 4 votes and there were 30, and the rural counties got 2 votes and there were 122. When all the rural votes came together, they were more powerful than the urban counties even though the urban counties had more people. It was used from 1917 to 1962. Though the urban counties had more people, the rural counties were able to outvote the more populated counties.

Match the African-American leader to his/her accomplishment. Letters will be used more than once.


25.) E Created the Neighborhood Union & became first VP of Atlanta NAACP

26.) A Wrote Souls of Black Folk

27.) B Became Atlanta's first black millionaire


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28.) A Helped found NAACP

29.) B Began Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

30.) A Believed in the Talented Tenth

31.) B Lived as son of white plantation owner until his father died



A. W. E. B. Dubois

B. Alonzo Herndon

C. Booker T. Washington

D. John Hope

E. Lugenia Burns Hope

32.) C Started Tuskegee Institute

33.) D President of Atlanta University and

Morehouse College

34.) B Operated Crystal Palace Barber Shop

35.) C Gave the Atlanta Compromise speech

36.) C Stressed technical training and vocational education

37.) B Born as a slave in Social Circle (Walton Co.), Ga


Compare/contrast the ideas of Booker T. Washington & W.E.B.Dubois



Booker T. Washington: born a slave in the south, self-taught, concentrated on technical skills (skills that can be used to have a career), viewed economic independence before social and political equality, bottom up approach, most well-known African American during this time, gave opening speech (Atlanta Compromise Speech) at the Cotton Expo in Atlanta
W.E.B.Dubois: born in the north (Massachusetts), attended the best schools, first African American to earn a PhD degree from Harvard, intellectual, historian, helped start the NAACP, disagreed with Dubois – felt African Americans should agitate and call for total equality, not just economic independence
ALIKE: both felt education was so important. Were civil rights activists. Made great strides to help African Americans.


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