Welcome to Georgia and the New South
This website discusses how the New South was ran. It also shows how African Americans contributed to its developement, the hardships African Americans went through and key political and social leaders of the time period.
Standard:
SS8H7: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occured in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.
a.) Evalutae the impact the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Exposition, Tom Watson, and the Populist, Rebecca Latimer Felton, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the Leo Frank Case, and the county unit system had on Georgia during this period.
b.) Analyze how rights were denied to African-Americans through the Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence.
c.) Explain the roles of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B DuBois, John and Lugenia Burns Hope, and Alonzo Herndon.
d.) Explain reasons for World War I (WWI) and describe Georgia's contribution.
Standard:
SS8H7: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occured in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.
a.) Evalutae the impact the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Exposition, Tom Watson, and the Populist, Rebecca Latimer Felton, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the Leo Frank Case, and the county unit system had on Georgia during this period.
b.) Analyze how rights were denied to African-Americans through the Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence.
c.) Explain the roles of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B DuBois, John and Lugenia Burns Hope, and Alonzo Herndon.
d.) Explain reasons for World War I (WWI) and describe Georgia's contribution.