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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot?
a) Racial Tension
b) False accusation in local newspapers
c) Economic success of African Americans in Atlanta
d) Anti - Semitism

How did Booker T. Washington think that African Americans could gain equal rights?
a) Through hard work and developing a trade (skill)
b) Through going to college
c) Through violence
d) By speaking out

Alonzo Herndon founded which company?
a) NAACP
b) Atlanta Life Insurance Company
c) American Life Insurance Company
d) YMCA

Georgia's first Jim Crow laws did what?
a) took away citizenship from blacks
b) took away a black's rights to vote
c) segregated facilities for blacks and whites
d) Made life easy for black

The New South movement was more concerned with changing Georgia how?
a) economically
b) politically
c) socially
d) making it pretty

What does Anti-Semitism mean?
a) Discrimination against Northerners
b) Discrimination against Foreigners
c) Discrimination against Jews
d) All answers are correct.

What laws are associated with the term separate but equal?
a) black codes
b) Civil Rights Act
c) Equal facilities law
d) Jim Crow

What happened to the man who was convicted of killing Mary Phagan?
a) sentenced to the death penalty
b) found not guilty based on lack of evidence
c) was executed by a lynch mob
d) was sent back to New York

Believed African Americans should have equal access to everything whites had immediately
a) Booker T. Washington
b) W.E. B. DuBois
c) John B. Gordon
d) Alonzo Herndon

Who was born into slavery and then became one of Atlanta's most prominent businessmen?
a) Alonzo Herndon
b) John B. Gordon
c) W.E. B. DuBois
d) Booker T. Washington

The law that stated that descendants of confederate veterans were not required to take literacy tests was known as
a) disenfranchisement
b) poll tax
c) grandfather clause
d) home rule

Who sponsored the Rural Free Delivery (RFD)?
a) Hoke Smith
b) Tom Watson
c) Henry Grady
d) Farmer Joe Bob

What court case challenged one of the Jim Crow Laws saying a black man's 13th and 14th amendments rights have been violated?
a) Brown vs GA
b) Crowe vs Fl
c) Worcester vs GA
d) Plessy vs Ferguson

False newspaper reports about black on white violence in Atlanta led to what issue in September of 1906?
a) International Cotton Exposition
b) Atlanta Race Riot
c) Leo Frank Trial
d) March on Washington

What did Jim Crow laws do?
a) made alcohol illegal
b) Created equality
c) Promoted industry
d) Continued White control

What did the ruling from Plessy vs Ferguson say?
a) Segregate blacks whites
b) Give black voting rights
c) Terrorize Citizens
d) Promote Equal Rights

What organization did DuBois found?
a) Atlanta Life Financial Group
b) Niagara Group
c) NAACP
d) The Atlanta Constitution

What do the following topics all have in common: - Grandfather clause - Poll tax - Literacy Test - White Primary?
a) Disenfranchisement
b) citizenship
c) Equal rights before the law
d) Jim Crow Law

What industrial fair highlighted the growth and improvements of Georgia's textile industry?
a) Cotton Warehouse
b) Cotton Pickin Fair
c) International Cotton Exposition
d) Georgia State Fair

What Georgia senator argued for farmers' rights, helped pass the Rural Free Delivery Bill and became the leader of the Populist Party?
a) Rebecca Latimer Felton
b) John B. Gordon
c) Tom Watson
d) Booker T. Washington

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