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Which Georgia industry benefited during WWI?
a) Construction
b) Rice farming
c) Fishing along the coasts
d) Canning fruits and vegetables

Which of the following was a result of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
a) His government collapsed.
b) World War I began
c) World War II began
d) World War I ended

Which of the following is a reason why the US decided to enter WWI?
a) Mexico was planning to attack the US.
b) German U-boat attacks made many Americans angry.
c) The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
d) The Triple Entente kept attacking US ships.

Who established the Neighborhood Union to help African American citizens of Atlanta?
a) Rebecca Latimer Felton
b) Lugenia Burns Hope
c) Alonzo Herndon
d) W.E.B. DuBois

Atlanta Life Insurance Company, the largest African American stock-owned insurance company in the country, was begun by which former slave?
a) Booker T. Washington
b) W.E.B. DuBois
c) Alonzo Herndon
d) John Hope

Who was the social activist that was the first woman ever to serve in the US Senate?
a) Nancy Hart
b) Lugenia Burns Hope
c) Rebecca Latimer Felton
d) Nancy Reagan

What was the basic premise behind the 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson?
a) Women's suffrage
b) Destruction of Jim Crow laws
c) Equal voting rights
d) Separate but equal

Alonzo Herndon was an example of which of the following?
a) The success of the Populist movement in Georgia.
b) The financial success some African Americans achieved despite racism in the early 1900s.
c) The important role played by the Bourbons in the New South.
d) The role Georgia farmers played in World War I.

A law which forbids a white man and a black man from sharing the same water fountain would be considered what?
a) Jim Crow law
b) Integration
c) Disenfranchisement
d) A grandfather clause

What were grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests intended to do?
a) Disenfranchise African Americans
b) Discriminate against Jews
c) End segregation
d) Protect African American voting rights

The African American leader who supported a gradual approach to racial equality was
a) W.E.B. DuBois
b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
c) Booker T. Washington
d) Alonzo Herndon

Who was the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University?
a) John Hope
b) Rebecca Latimer Felton
c) Booker T. Washington
d) Alonzo Herndon

Which notable African American leader believed that blacks should strive to be intellectuals and helped found the NAACP?
a) Booker T. Washington
b) Rebecca Latimer Felton
c) Alonzo Herndon
d) W.E.B. DuBois

Which of the following best describes the relationship between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
a) They were both leaders in the Populist movement.
b) They did not like each other because they argued over poll taxes and literacy tests.
c) They disagreed over what role African Americans should strive to play in society and the issue of segregation.
d) They were close friends who worked together to win racial justice for African Americans.

Which of the following is true regarding Georgia's role during WWI?
a) Most Georgians who fought had to be trained elsewhere due to Georgia's lack of military bases
b) Georgia contributed textiles and agricultural products that helped the war effort.
c) The war ended before Georgia could get involved.
d) Very few Georgians volunteered to fight in the war.

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