A | B |
Booker T Washington | African American leader called for the expectation that civil rights will come only gradually to African Americans |
Race Riot | series of physical confrontations between two or more groups of different races |
Eugene Talmadge | elected governor 4 times, ran for US Senate twice, often used executive orders |
Boll Weevil | uniquely able to destroy cotton crops |
Great Depression | drought and over farming made this period worst |
WWI | created the growth of a new type of institution - army bases |
New Deal | the Rural Electricity Act caused many rural regions to receive electricity for the first time |
Jim Crow Law | racist public policy common in the South after Reconstruction |
W.E.B. Du Bois | civil rights leader |
Bourbon Democrats | were conservative democrats who were led by the Bourbon Triumvirate |
Eugene Talmadge | ran for US Senate, but lost |
Overplanting | characteristic of the agricultural disaster of the 1930s |