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New South People, Places and Things

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Robert WoodruffHe lead the Coca-Cola company to become a multi-million dollar soft drink empire and founded Emory University
Rebecca Latimer FeltonShe was the first female US senator in the nations history
Joseph E. BrownHe was a popular state's rights governor who provided funding for the GA Militia
Sidney LanierPoet who wrote "song of the chattahoochee"
John B. GordonHe wrote "Reminiscences"
Booker T. WashingtonHe id famous for speaking at the Cotton States Exposition
Bourbon TriumvirateNickname of Brown, Colquitt and Gordon
PatronageThe system of appointing people to government jobs in exchange for their political support
Joel Chandler HarrisLived in the "Wrens Nest"
Alfred H. ColquittUnder his leadership as governor the state's constitution was revised in 1877 and the states debt was reduced
Henry GradyCoined the phrase "New South"
Morris ReichHe founded a department store
Asa CandlerHe was a Villa Rica druggest who bought all of the stock for company know for its refreshing soft drinks
Tom WatsonHe introduced the Rural Free Delivery Boll in Congress
Rutherford B. HayesHis disputed election as presidnet singaled the end of Reconstruction
James A. GarfieldThe Second US President assissinated in the nations historyu
The GrangeA major accomplishment was the formation of the state Department of Agriculture
Convict Lease SystemA system of providing prisoners to work for people who provided food and housing
Credit MobilerThe Company involved in the scandle in President Grants administration
Pendleton Civil Service ActThe base for a system of competitive examinations for government jobs
Redemptive EraThe period during which the state was "resuced" from the hardships of the Reconstrucion years and the rule of Republicans was known as this...
Henry GradyWas the editor of the AJC
Hoke SmithHe was the editor of the AJC
The Patrons of HusbandryTHe Grange was first known as this
Income TaxThis was a Populist party platform that still exists today!
Rural Free DelievryWas a service of the US post office to have the mail delivered to rural residence
Women's Chrisitian Temperance Union & Anti-Saloon LeagueOrginizations that tried to stop the sale of liquior in GA
Economic ChangeWhat the NEW South Movement was concerned with
Why was the People's Party defeated in the 1892 Congressional election?THe Democrats changed the voting from the Populist Party candidate would split the "white" vote and allow the African-American vote to win the election
DemocraticThe south was overwhelmingly democratinc. In fact, few Republicand even bothered to run int he south

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