Unit 6 Vocab & People

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Across
  1. 2. a political group that formed from the Farmer’s Alliance; supported the rights and powers of the common people; also called “The People’s Party”
  2. 3. a term coined by Henry W. Grady and used to describe the southern states after Reconstruction where “scientific” farming and more industry would put the South on a new economic path
  3. 5. a leader in the Civil Rights movement; believed that education was the key to equality and thought that the “talented 10%” should go on to higher education.
  4. 8. laws passed in the South calling for segregation
  5. 10. to separate by race
  6. 11. the national leader of the Populist Party; responsible for the Rural Free Delivery bill; served in the US House of Representatives and in the Senate after changing his stand on civil rights
  7. 13. to take the right to vote away from someone or some group
  8. 14. the Democratic Party’s rule of 1900 that its primaries for statewide offices would be open to whites only
  9. 15. three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
  10. 16. anti-Jewish prejudice
  11. 17. bought Atlanta Mutual Insurance for $100 and turned it into a million-dollar company; one of the richest African-Americans in the US
Down
  1. 1. the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks
  2. 2. an irrational hostility towards another person, group, or race
  3. 4. a system that provided convict labor to private parties such as railroad companies or plantation owners; companies were supposed to provide housing and food.
  4. 6. a leader in the Civil Rights movement; believed that economic independence was the key to equality, and that all African-Americans needed to learn a trade.
  5. 7. occurs when a mob of people murder someone, usually by hanging.
  6. 9. the manager of the National Pencil Company; accused of murdering one an employee, and later lynched by concerned citizens of Marietta.
  7. 12. created the concept of the “New South”; a UGA grad; the editor of the Atlanta Constitution; brought the Cotton States Exposition to Atlanta; thought GA needed to replace agriculture with industry