New South

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  1. 2. Party A political party formed in the late 1800's by labor organizations and the Farmer's Alliance
  2. 6. Frank Jewish Superintendent of the National Pencil Company (Atlanta) charged with the murder of 14 year old Mary Phagan
  3. 8. Triumvirate The name given to three GA leaders (Joseph e. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, John B. Gordon)
  4. 10. v. Ferguson 1896 Supreme Court case which ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal
  5. 12. Cotton Exposition The three month long exhibits promoting cotton and other agriculture products
  6. 14. Amendment An amendment to the US Constitution that gave women the right to vote (ratified 1920)
  7. 15. Dubois Atlanta University Professor that believed truth and knowledge would help different races accept and understand each other (through social and political integration)
  8. 16. South A term coined by Henry W. Grady and used to describe the Southern states after Reconstruction
  9. 17. The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to people over the age of 18 by the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
  10. 19. T. Washington Civil Rights Leader; President of Tuskegee Institute; believed that economic independence was the only road to social and political equality
  11. 20. Unit System A procedure for primaries that gave the more populous counties more unit votes; established by the Neill Primary Act
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  1. 1. Watson Developed the Rural free Delivery (RFD) Bill; supported rights for African Americans for votes but later changed sides and opposed minority rights
  2. 3. Frank Case A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl
  3. 4. A separation by race
  4. 5. Grady "Voice of the South" was the manager of the Atlanta constitution who wrote insightful and controversial editorials, one of the planners for the Atlanta International Cotton Exposition
  5. 7. Journalists who wrote about injustices and exposed the filth of society
  6. 9. An illegal hanging, usually by a mob
  7. 11. Crow Laws Laws passed in the South to establish "separate-but-equal" facilities for whites and for blacks
  8. 13. Atlanta Riot White mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage
  9. 18. Herndon African American entrepreneur that owned the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company (one of the largest African American owned businesses in US today.)