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2.) _________________________- 48 hour riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts of African-American men attacking white women; several African-Americans were killed during the riot.

3.)________________________- three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.

4.) ________________________- a system that provided convict labor to private parties such as railroad companies or plantation owners.

5.)_________________________- a voting system that gave more power to Georgia’s rural counties than urban ones.

6.)_________________________- to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.

7.)_________________________- civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans.

8.)__________________________- Georgia writer, political activist, social reformer, and first female U.S. senator.

9.) _________________________- managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.”

10.)________________________- disenfranchisement law that said if a person’s father could vote before the Civil War they would be able to vote as well.

11.) _______________________- founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

12.) ______________________- an important educator, civil rights leader, and social reformer; president of Morehouse and Atlanta University.

13.)_______________________- community organizer, reformer, and social activist; wife of John Hope.

14.) _______________________- group of Democrats in Georgia who were opposed to the policies of the Bourbon Triumvirate.

15.) _______________________- a series of three large events (1881, 1885, 1895) established to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.

16.) _______________________- laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans citizenship rights.

17.)________________________- trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling themselves “the Knights of Mary Phagan” took Frank out of his prison cell and lynched him in Marietta.

18.) ______________________- a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.

19.) _______________________- British passenger ship that was sunk by the Germans in 1915. Over 100 Americans were killed; the sinking of the Lusitania contributed to America entering World War I.

20.) _______________________- another name for the Independent Democrats.

21.) _______________________- period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.

22.) ________________________- a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote; this prevented poor blacks and whites from voting.

23.) ________________________- a short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.

24.) ________________________- Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.

25.) ________________________- legislation proposed by Georgia Congressman Tom Watson that provided free mail delivery to rural areas of the country.

26.) _______________________-Supreme Court ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were equally funded; however, this was rarely the case.

27.) _______________________- W.E.B. Dubois’ concept of an elite group of college educated African Americans who would use their talents and position to eradicate segregation in American society.

28.)______________________-educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality.

29.) ______________________-lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party with a progressive view of racial policies; ended his career as an ardent segregationist and anti-Semite; died while serving a term as U.S. senator from Georgia.

30.) _____________________- national political moment supporting women’s right to vote.

31.) _____________________- major war primarily between European powers; U.S. entered the war in 1917.

32.) _____________________-telegraph sent from Germany to Mexico offering the country the opportunity for an alliance. Germany urged Mexico to attack the United States in return for territory lost during the Mexican-American War.

Zimmerman Telegraph The Talented Tenth Poll Tax

Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895) Disenfranchisement Herndon, Alonzo (1858-1927)

World War I-(1914-1918) Separate but Equal New South

Atlanta Race Riot (1906) Dubois, W.E.B. (1868-1963) Hope, John (1868-1936)

Women’s Suffrage Rural Free Delivery Act New Democrats

Bourbon Triumvirate Felton, Rebecca Latimer (1835-1930)

Watson, Tom (1856-1922) Plessy V. Ferguson (1892) Hope, Lugenia Burns (1871-1947)

Convict Lease System Grady, Henry (1850-1889) Independent Democrats

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) Populist Party Literacy Test