SS8H7a Part 1

3. activities associated with the government
4. Tech an engineering school that was started in Georgia in 1885 to encourage the move towards industry
5. growing crops in large numbers to sell
8. Bourbon Triumvirate a group of three white Georgia men who controlled politics in the state during the 1870’s, 1880’s, and 1890’s
11. the rebuilding of the South following the American Civil War
12. creating large amounts of goods to sell, usually in very big factories
13. when people who try to influence politicians to support certain things

1. Senator a person elected to the senate division of the U.S. Legislature
2. of Agriculture planting different crops crops instead of depending only on one
6. New South a phrase created by Henry Grady, he used it to describe Georgia’s moving away from an agricultural economy to an industrial one
7. Supremacist a person who looks out for the interest of people of the white race only, and views white people as superior to other races
9. people who puts some of their own money into a business with the hope of getting more back in the future
10. the head political figure of a state (like the president, but of one state only)
12. Cotton Expositions big events, similar to state fairs, that were used to highlight the growth of Atlanta and to encourage investment in industry in the south