1. The Redemption Years and the “New South”

2. Warm Up
Name the Bourbon Triumvirate and give an example of why each person was significant to the development of Georgia.

3. The Bourbon Triumvirate
Joseph E. Brown
1857 GA Governor (reelected 2 more times)
1880 appointed by Gov. Colquitt to fill US Senate seat
US Senator until 1891
Trustee of UGA for 32 years and President of the Atlanta Board of Education

4. The Bourbon Triumvirate (cont.)
Alfred E. Colquitt
Elected Gov. in 1876, and served until 1882
During his administration:
Reduced state’s debt
1877 a new constitution approved (not rewritten until 1945)
Elected to US Senate in 1883 and 1888

5. The Bourbon Triumvirate (cont.)
John B. Gordon
1872 elected US Senator
1886 elected Gov., and reelected for two more terms
Elected to US Senate in 1891 and served until 1897
As Gov. he accomplished the following:
Reduced the state’s debt
Brought new industry to state

6. International Cotton Exposition of 1881
Henry Grady’s concept of the “New South” to bring in jobs, new technology and investments
Showed off the industries in the South
Held in Atlanta

7. Henry Grady Editor of Rome Courier
Became southern correspondent for The New York Herald
In 1880, became managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution (rival to the Atlanta Journal)
Termed “New South” due to several articles/speeches advocating that the new South was decreasing agriculturally and becoming more industrialized

8. The Populists and Tom Watson
Populist Party – people’s party that supports the rights and powers of the common man
Reforms – eight-hour work day, graduated income tax, restrictions on immigration, government ownership of railroads, telephones and telegraph services
Tom Watson
A) General Assembly, concerned with African American farmers
B) While in the US House of Representatives he introduced the Rural Free Delivery service
C) 1904 Populist Party candidate for President, lost the election
D) Returned to Democratic Party in 1905

9. Warm Up (write below yesterday’s warm up)
Who were the opposition to the Bourbon’s?
What does the term “new” mean when we place it in front of another word? (i.e. New England, New Netherlands, new Mercedes Stadium)

10. 1906 Atlanta Riot Worst Race riots in Georgia
Newspapers and politicians were spreading (mostly) false information of black violence against whites
By 5:00 PM on Sept. 22, 5,000 whites and blacks gathered on Decatur St.
Martial law was declared
At least 18 blacks and 3 whites were killed; hundreds of people were injured
Value of property was extremely high

11. The Leo Frank Case Superintendent of the National Pencil Company
April 26, 1913, he was charged with murder of Mary Phagan, a 14 year old employee
During trial very little evidence was offered, except testimony of Jim Conley a black janitor
Jim Crow laws prohibited a black from testifying against a white
Leo Frank was Jewish

12. The Leo Frank Case (cont.)
Found guilty of murder and sentenced to death
Governor Slaton was under pressure to pardon Frank, instead commuted sentence to life in prison
Slaton had death threats for next few months after he reduced Frank’s sentence
Two months after sentence reduction, 25 men stormed the penitentiary in Milledgeville and took Frank and brought him to Marietta (Phagan’s home town) and hung from a tree at the Marietta Square

13. Rebecca Latimer Felton
Writer for The Cartersville Courant and the Atlanta Journal to attack the Bourbons
Leader in the Suffrage and Temperance Movements
One particular issue Felton clashed with the Bourbons was over the convict lease system
Convict lease system – prisoners were leased out and provided with food and shelter in exchange for labor; corruption in this system
1922 became first woman to be a US Senator

14. County Unit System
1917 Neil Primary Act established a system for political primaries
Less populated counties would have more power than the more populated counties
Primary elections would decide the state election
Candidates must win in the rural and less populated counties

15. Quick Write
Were the Bourbon Triumvirate members good for Georgia? Why or why not?