| A | B |
|---|
| Republicans | rarely even bothered to nominate a candidate after 1900 because the South was so overwhelmingly Democratic |
| literacy test exemptions | grandfather clause, land holders, and "good character" |
| Rural Free Delivery | a law sponsored by Tom Watson which allowed rural citizens to receive their mail free of charge |
| Progressive Reforms | child labor, prison conditions, and moral behavior |
| Nineteenth Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| convict-lease system | allowed companies to "rent" persons convicted of serious crimes |
| Rebecca Felton | led the prohibition movement and the struggle for woman suffrage |
| railroad passenger cars | required to be separate for the races by Georgia's first Jim Crow law |
| Progressives | most successful group in promoting white supremacy |
| Farmers' Alliance | very successful in helping pass laws that helped farmers |
| Constitution of 1877 | made it very difficult for the state to borrow money |
| Constitution of 1877 | had restrictions that tax money could onley be spent for specific purposes |
| Constitution of 1877 | reduced state senators' terms to two years instead of four years |
| New South | a movement that pushed for Georgia to make economic changes |
| People's Party | believed in equality for blacks and whites |
| RFD | Rural Free Delivery |
| Farmers' Alliance | pushed the railroads to post their rates |
| Bourbon Democrats | made whites afraid of black rule and social equality |
| compulsory attendance law | a law requiring school age children to attend school; unsuccessful due to little support |
| 1906 Atlanta race riot | violence in which white men blamed the drunkenness of black men for crimes in Atlanta; eventually led to statewide prohibition |
| disfranchisement | taking away the right to vote |
| diversify | to introduce variety |
| local option | allowing citizens to vote on whether a particular law will apply to their community |
| prohibition | forbidding the manufacture, sale, or use of alcoholic beverages |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Henry Grady | editor of the Atlanta Constitution and promoter of the New South movement |
| Rebecca Felton | leader of the prohibition and suffrage movements |
| Hoke Smith | helped pass a law creating the Agricultural Extension Service |
| Robert Toombs | campaigned to replace the Reconstruction Constitution of 1868 |
| Tom Watson | sponsor of RFD |
| Bourbon Redeemers | believed the South's prosperity depended on manufacturing and industry |
| Farmers' Alliance | self-help farmers' organization that called for changes on tax laws to ease the burden on farmers |
| Independent Democrats | organized by farmers in northwest Georgia and campaigned to help farmers and the "little people" |
| Populists | called on black and white farmers to unite against merchants, bankers, and lawyers |
| Progressives | goal was to improve social and moral conditions in the South |
