By: Tyler Thurmond and Nathan Haines Who Am I? By: Tyler Thurmond and Nathan Haines

refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-Reconstruction era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon

Bourbon Triumvirate

was the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U. S was the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. Governor Brown was a leading secessionist in 1861, taking his state out of the Union and into the Confederacy. Member of Bourbon Triumvirate.

Joseph E. Brown

Member of Bourbon Triumvirate Member of Bourbon Triumvirate. Fought in confederate army and was leader of ku Klux Klan. In 1886, won first of two terms as Ga governor.

John B. Gordon

Ga governor from 1877-1882. Colquitt is named after him

Alfred H. Colquitt

Editor of the atlanta constitution and would promote the “New south” Believed the south needed to be more like the north with industies. Atlanta cotton exposition

Henry W. Grady

Idea that the south needed to change to be more industrialized economy

New South

Expo that showed Atlanta was ready for industry Expo that showed Atlanta was ready for industry. This expo also attracted many northern business leaders in 1895

International Cotton Exposition

Transportation hub; capital of Ga

Atlanta

Mills that produced textiles that helped people with daily living

Textile Mills

Products traditionally used to build and maintain wooden sailing ships, such as turpentine, rosin, etc.

Naval Stores

Didn’t like the new south program and believed in the populist party Didn’t like the new south program and believed in the populist party. Also, ran for governor two times and lost both times

Tom Watson

Movement by small farmers to get the government to regulate the economy so they could get more money for their crops

Populist Movement

Wife of a progressive congressman and wrote articles for newspapers that challenged bourbon triumvirate Fought for womens suffrage

Rebecca Latimer Felton

A system of voting that elects the candidate with the most counties wins

County Unit system

Where whites and blacks could not be together in public places

Segregation

Laws that required whites and blacks to be sperated

Jim Crow Laws

Case where half black Plessey seat on a white rail car in Louisiana

Plessy V. Ferguson

Former slave that believed that blacks should focus on learning a form of manual labor

Booker T. Washington

Believed blacks should intellectuals

W.E.B DuBois

Severed as first black professor at Morehouse and became first black president at Atlanta university

John Hope

Wife of Johns Hope and was a social activist and welfare worker

Lugenia Burns Hope

Started Atlanta Life Insurance Company and helped Auburn Avenue win the nickname “black wall street”

Alonzo Herndon

Famous speech that W.E.B Dubois gave that upset many blacks

Atlanta Compromise

Unable to vote

DisFranchise

Riot over racical tension between whites and blacks that over 20 blacks and 2 whites died

Atlanta Race Riot

In Atlanta 1913 someone murdered Mary Phagan and the wrong person was prosecuted and the case was actually correctly solved 71 years later

Leo Frank Case

War between central powers and allied powers

World War 1

Fighting ships that travel under water and are also called submariens

German U-Boats

Commercial cruise ship sunk by German U- boats

Lusitania

Telegram sent by Germany to Mexico promising Mexico land in the US in exchange for help in the war

Zimmerman Telegram

When the government selects people to go into the armed forces When the government selects people to go into the armed forces. Also known as the selective services act

draft

Bases that helped train recruits for the war

Military Bases

The states textiles food and supplies are all examples to help the war effort

Georgia’s wartime Contributions

Agreement to stop fighting

Armistice

Which of the following statements best describes the bourbon triumvirate?

They were bourbon Democrats who dominated post-reconstruction Georgia politics

Which statement would Henry Grady have most likely agreed with?

The south must become industrialized, like the north