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Unit 6 Study Guide Topics: (Use these topics to create your own Unit 6 study guide.)
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New South
o Bourbon Triumvirate
o Henry Grady (views on industry and the diversification of agriculture)
o Cotton Expositions (purpose)
o Populist Movement
o Tom Watson
o Rural Free Delivery
o Rebecca Latimer Felton
o 19th Amendment (Who led this movement in GA?)
o 1906 Race Riot (details, effects)
o Disenfranchisement
 Literacy Tests (exemptions)
 Grandfather Clause
 Poll taxes
 Racial violence
o Jim Crow Laws
o W.E.B. Dubois
o Alonzo Herndon
o Booker T Washington
o John/Lugenia Burns Hope
o Atlanta race riot of 1906
o Leo Frank Case (details, effects of case)
o WWI
 Wilson’s promise regarding WWI…, main reasons for the War
 What event was the immediate cause for the beginning of WWI?
 Reasons for U.S. Entry into WWI (know the immediate reason)
 GA’s contributions to WWI / Fort McPherson’s role in WWI
Writing Prompts:
The New South era was a time of great change in Georgia. Describe three ways or ideas that
were more “New South” and less about the Georgia of the past. (Politics, Economy, Industry,
Society) Please use some of the vocabulary below in your response.
o Henry Grady, Bourbon Triumvirate, railroads, northern investment, diversification, rural
free delivery, cotton expositions, 1906 race riot, Leo Frank, Jim Crow laws
Consider the prejudice that existed in Atlanta during the early 1900’s and explain how
Leo Frank was unfairly treated. Do you think this type of situation could happen today?