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New South Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New South | Idea of making the South stronger and more independent by becoming more industrial |
| Triumvirate | Ruling body of three |
| Urban | City-like |
| Suburbs | Communities on the outskirts of a city |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Temperance | Anti-alcohol |
| Grange | A farm and its buildings |
| Farmer's Alliance | Social organization formed to help farmers buy goods at cheap prices |
| Populist Party | "People's Party"; formed through a combo of the Farmer's Alliance and labor unions; meant to stop unfair practices |
| Scrip | Money that isn't legal currency |
| Who coined the phrase "New South?" | Henry W. Grady |
| Who were the 3 members of the Bourbon Triumvirate? | John Gordon, Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt |
| List positives accomplished by the BT. | Expanded industry, lowered war debt and taxes |
| List negatives accomplished by the BT. | Spread racism and hate, overlooked corrupt practices in government, factories and hospitals, white supremacy |
| When was the New South era? | After Reconstruction |
| Who is Henry W. Grady? | GA journalist, national public speaker |
| Who were the people of the superpower couple? | William and Rebecca Felton |
| What were the Feltons' causes? | Poor people, convict lease system |
| What were Rebecca's causes? | Suffrage, temperance, politics |
| What was the convict lease system? | System in which people and businesses rented convicts to work in exchange for food/shelter, very corrupt, Brown and Gordon involved |
| Why were farmers going bankrupt? | Due to poor economic conditions |
| Why was the grange formed? | As a social and political force to help farmers |
| GA was the first state to do what to help farmers? | To form a government agency |
| What two groups combined to form the Populist Party? | The Grange and the Farmers Alliance |
| Who was Tom Watson? | A famous populist, US representative from GA, RFD (Rural Free Delivery) Bill |
| Length of school year? | Three months |
| Grade levels? | Mixed together, 1-8 |
| Instruction? | Spelling, reading, writing, grammar, geography, simple math |
| School facilities? | Anywhere- barn, tree, schoolhouse |
| Methods of punishment? | Circus Wag, Horse and Rider |
| Teacher training and duties? | One month training, 70+ on test |
| Teacher salaries? | Black= $25/month White= $65/month |
| Alanzo Herndon | Former slave, operated successful ATL barber shop, owned real estate in ATL, established Atlanta Life Insurance Agency |
| Sidney Lanier | Famous NSE poet and author, wrote "The Song of the Chattahoochee" and "The Marshes of Glynn," wrote orchestral piece with words for USA's centennial, lake named for him |
| Joel Chandler Harris | Famous NSE author, worked at the ATL Constitution with Henry Grady, compiled Uncle Remus Tales |
| Mary Lumpkin | Established the first Ladies Garden Club in America |
| Martha Berry | Established a highly successful college in Rome, GA by using her family's former plantation, land and money |
| Ty Cobb | First player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| Juliet Gordon Lowe | Founded the American Girl Scouts in Savannah, GA |
| Morris Reich | Founded Rich's Department store in 1867 |
| The opening of Rich's Department store? | 1867- Rich's became GA's first department store |
| The first phone conversation in GA? | 1881- Between Anton Kontz and Wrenn, railroad people |
| The beginning of Coca-Cola? | 1886- Began as a local GA drink invented by Doc Pemberton, Robert Woodruff turned into a mutli-billion dollar business |
| The opening of GA Tech? | 1888- Two buildings in downtown ATL, now one of the top tech schools in the US |
| Inman Park? | 1889- Two miles east of downtown Atlanta |
| The Cotton States and International Exposition? | 1880s and 1890s- Over 800,000 visitors; John Philip Sousa, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, displayed GA's hospitality |
| When was Mary Phagan murdered? | April 1913 |
| Where was Mary Phagan murdered? | Pencil Factory in Atlanta, GA |
| What prompted the rebirth of the KKK? | The murder of Mary Phagan |
| When was the KKK reborn? | August 1915 |
| How many members did the KKK have at its most popular? | Four million |
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