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| Bourbon Triumvirate | Powerful Democratic leaders, known as the “Bourbon Triumvirate” were Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon. Their goals were to expand Georgia’s economy and ties with industries in the North and maintain the tradition of white supremacy. |
| Henry Grady | Father of the New South. Wanted Georgia to advance to an industrial society that could compete with the north while also increasing the technology used in farming. As a writer for the Atlanta Constitution, he helped to organize the International Cotton Exposition – Designed to show the economic recovery that had taken place in the south by 1895. |
| Tom Watson | Worked to protect farmer’s rights while also helping them in their struggle with the “wealthy” people. He was the political leader of the Populists- the new political party that supported farmers and African Americans in south. |
| Rebecca Latimer Felton | Supporter of women’s suffrage (the right to vote). Helped improve child labor laws and prison conditions. Became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1922. |
| 1906 Atlanta Race Riot | String of violence by whites against African Americans over two days in 1906. 21 people were killed and hundreds were wounded. |
| Leo Frank | Accused of killing Mary Phagan. Very little evidence against him but Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death. Frank was taken from the prison and lynched by a group calling themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan. This group later reformed as the KKK. |
| County Unit System | Plan designed to give small counties more power in state government. People could be elected to office without getting a majority of votes. Declared unconstitutional in 1962. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed to separate blacks and whites. (to establish segregation) |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision which approved Jim Crow laws – decision in place until 1954 |
| Disenfranchisement | Laws created to keep African Americans in Georgia from voting |
| Grandfather Clause | only those men whose fathers or grandfathers were eligible to vote in 1867 could vote |
| Poll Tax | a tax paid to vote, Voters had to own property |
| Literacy Test | voters had to pass. Was determined by the poll worked and could be different for different people |
| Booker T. Washington | President of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Worked to improve the lives of African Americans through economic independence. Believed social and political equality would come with improved economic conditions and education. Delivered the famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech in 1895. |
| W. E. B. DuBois | Professor at Atlanta University. Believed in “action” if African Americans and whites were to understand and accept each other. Thought Booker T. Washington was too accepting of social injustice. He worked with the Niagra Movement to help create the NAACP- the first major organization for African American rights. |
| John Hope | Civil rights leader from Augusta, GA. President of Atlanta University. Like DuBois, believed that African Americans should actively work for equality. Part of group that organized NAACP. |
| Lugenia Burns Hope | worked to improve sanitation, roads, healthcare and education for African American neighborhoods in Atlanta. |
| Alonzo Herndon | Purchased Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company (a small insurance company) and managed it well in 1905. Now one of the largest African American businesses in the US. Worth over $200 million and operates in 17 states. |
| World War I | On June 28, 1914, an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary believed that Serbia's government was behind the assassination. When the fighting began, France, Russia, and Great Br |
| GA’s Contributions to WWI | ±100,000 Georgians volunteered to join the US Armed Forces Training in Georgia at Camp Benning, Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon, and Camp Hancock helped Georgia economy. Their main functions were to train soldiers, and provide a prison camp for POWs (prisoners of war) during WWI |
