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the point of Henry Grady's funeral speech | to declare that Georgia should not be dependent on the the north for finished goods |
farming | the way most Georgians earned their living in the late 1800's |
a lack of capital | the reason Georgia could not industrialize |
Fall Line | location of the cotton mills that did exist in Georgia |
the purpose of the cotton expositions | to encourage business to build industries in the state |
low taxes, mild climate, and cheap labor | reasons many northern businesses built textile mills in Georgia |
the Grange | set up cooperative stores and pushed the General Assembly to create the Dept. of Agriculture |
Atlanta Race Riot | typical of the violence by whites against blacks |
Black Belt | heart of the cotton growing area located on the Fall Line |
labor | always supplied by theharecropper and tenant farmer |
crop | a farmer's most valuable possession |
Atlanta | city which developed around a railroad |
Auburn Avenue | social and commercial center for African Americans in Atlanta |
Atlanta Compromise | belief that blacks would achieve political and social equality once they learned a skill |
elementary schools and universities | early public education in Georgia |
African American reaction to violence and discrimination | left for jobs in the north |
DuBois, Hope, and Washington | leaders who sought to improve the lives of African Americans |
village, town, or city | where one-third of Georgians lived by 1910 |
white children | benefitted from the most state and local money for education |
seasonal work on the farm | an excuse for missing school even after the compulsory attendance law passed |
Cotton States and International Exposition | largest economic fair; Washington spoke and Cody entertained. |
first public schools in Georgia | open three months a year |
Tom Watson | used his newspaper to spread hatred for blacks, Jews, and Catholics |
cooperative stores | run by and for farmers to provide farm supplies at a low cost |
bad weather | worst risk for a tenant farmer |
crop lien | a legal claim on a farmer's crop as payment for a loan given to grow that crop |
dry goods | textiles, ready-made clothing |
sharecropping | a system of farming in which the farmer works someone else's land for a portion of the crops |
tenant farming | a system of farming in which the farmer does not own the land but rents it or works it for wages or for a share of the crop he produces |
Asa Candler | made Coca-Cola a refreshing drink |
Alonzo Herndon | owner of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company |
John Pemberton | druggist who created Coca-Cola as a medicine |
Morris Rich | established a department store |
Robert Woodruff | made Coca-Cola an internation product |
W.E.B. DuBois | helped establish the NAACP |
Henry Grady | strong supporter of the New South movement |
John Hope | president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University |
Gustavus Orr | father of the common school system |
Booker T. Washington | founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
Martha Berry | began a school in Rome for underprivileged children |
Leo Frank | pencil factory manager who was tried and convicted of the death of a 14-year old worker |
Juliette Gordon Lowe | formed the Girl Scouts of America |
Mary Lumpkin | started the first garden club in Athens |
John Slaton | governor who reduced Frank's death sentence to life in prison |
Ku Klux Klan reborn at Stone Mountain | After Frank's death sentence was reduced, an angry mob took Frank from prison and lynched him. |
Farmer's Alliance | group that helped farmers after the Grange memberships began to decline |
Atlanta Compromise speech | given by Booker T. Washington at the Cotton States and Internation Exposition |
Niagra Movement | organized by W.E.B. DuBois in 1905 to end the Jim Crow laws |
NAACP | an organization DuBois helped establish in 1909 |
high schools included in state funding | 1912, amendments made to the state constitution for this purpose |
compulsory school attendance law | passed in 1916, required children to attend school for a minimum of 4 months a year |