1. Unit 8: The New South
SS8H87: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.

2. Warm-up: CRCT Review
According to the Charter of 1732, Georgia’s was created for which 3 purposes?
Who owed a trading post store and served as the translator for Oglethorpe in his discussions with Chief Tomochichi?
Which crop were the colonists of Georgia expected to grow in order to feed silkworms?
Who controlled Georgia after it became a royal colony?
Who was the first royal governor of Georgia?

3. Section 1: Bourbon Democrats and Independents
Essential Question
How did the Bourbon Democrats control Georgia politics during this period?

4. The New South Movement Time period from 1877-1919
The New South Movement required 3 changes:
Expand industries (factories/businesses)
Rely less on cash crops (cotton)
Grow more food crops
Diversification = adding more industry + more crops. Making money on more than just cotton.

5. The New South Movement
Few Southerners had enough money to start new industries.
However, Northern banks and businessmen did have money to invest in the South.
The South had great potential = Abundant natural resources and raw materials (timber, coal, iron ore, & cotton) + Cheap labor + a good year-round climate.

6. The New South Movement
Georgians who opposed the New South movement did not want:
Larger cities
Capitalism
Mass production
Anything to do with modernizing the South
They wanted to keep Georgia rural and agricultural.

7. Henry Grady http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/henry_grady
Known as the “Voice of the New South”
Editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper
Grady traveled the USA informing people of the New South: Industry, diversified farming, and better treatment of African Americans.
He was able to attract new businesses, jobs, and investments to the state of Georgia from

8. Henry Grady
Did you know the following places were named in honor of Henry Grady?
Grady county was created in 1905.
Grady Hospital was opened on June 1, 1892

9. The First Five March 14, 2014
Agenda Message: Use your class notes to answer the following homework questions… Due Tuesday, March 18th
What was so new about the New South?
What attracted Northern investors and businessmen to the South?
Why did some people not accept the idea of a New South?
Why did some Georgians want to keep Georgia rural and keep its economy agricultural?
STOP

10. Unit 8: The New South
SS8H87: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.
MONDAY, MARCH 17TH

11. The First Five March 17, 2014
Agenda Message: What are three present day businesses that were established in the 1800s?
YOU MAY USE YOUR TECHNOLOGY (PHONE)
Think about businesses that you see in your community or businesses that advertise on television, in magazines or newspapers, and or on the Internet.
Western Union
Wells Fargo Bank
Kellogg Company
Tiffany & Company
Levi Strauss & Company
R.H. Macy’s Department Stores
Hershey Company
Kroger Grocer
Coca-Cola
Sears, Roebuck, & Company
Kodak
Barnes & Noble Bookstore

12. Warm-up: CRCT Review
List and explain the 4 Prehistoric Indian Periods in chronological order.
Explain the meaning of God, Gold, & Glory.
Who is known as the “Founding Father” of Georgia?
What is the highest mountain peak in Georgia?

13. Alonzo Herndon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alMl2Nj7Abw
From 1883 to 1927, he was the wealthiest African American in the USA
Owned the Crystal Palace Barbershop on Peachtree Street in Atlanta
Created & owned the Atlanta Life Insurance Company-still opened today in 17 states

14. Bourbon Democrats and Independents
The Democrats controlled Georgia by the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
Politicians tried to control the African American vote with intimidation.
These politicians wanted whites to support the Democratic Party and remain united. They did not want southern whites to lose their political and economic power.
In the 1890s, the Populists called on white and black farmers to challenge the Democratic Party power structure.

15. Bourbon Triumvirate
Joseph E. Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John B. Gordon were all past governors of Georgia.
Their opponents called them “Bourbons,” a term that referred to a royal French family that never learned from the past, but also never forgot the past.
They were called the Bourbon Triumvirate.
These 3 leaders wanted:
Stronger relationships with industries in the North to expand Georgia’s economy
White supremacy (the belief that the white is superior to other racial groups)
The Bourbon Triumvirate controlled Georgia. They supported “Lost Cause” ideas (maintaining white supremacy and pre-Civil War states’ rights), but also supported business, the railroads, and other “New South” issues.

16. Bourbon Triumvirate Joseph E. Brown 1857-1865 Alfred Colquitt
John B. Gordon
Terms as state governor

17. County Unit System
The Democratic Party dominated the state of Georgia.
The Georgia Constitution of 1877 created the county unit system.
Rural counties with small populations controlled the outcomes of Georgia elections; thus people were elected to office without the majority of the state’s vote.
This system ended in 1963, because it was unconstitutional.

18. 3-2-1 Response
What were 3 changes that were necessary for the New South Movement to take place?
What were the 2 changes that Henry Grady traveled the USA encouraging southerners to do in the 1880s?
What is 1 thing that was named in honor of Henry Grady in Georgia?

19. Unit 8: The New South
SS8H87: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.
Tuesday, MARCH 18TH

20. The First Five March 13, 2014
Agenda Message: Study for Unit 8 CDA on Monday, 3/17/14 Today’s Warm-up: Read pp and answer #1-4 on p. 109, in the Georgia CRCT Coach workbook.

21. The First Five March 18, 2014
Agenda Message: Study for Unit 8 CDA on 04/04/14
Warm-up: CRCT Review
List and explain each of the five geographic regions of Georgia.

22. Tom Watson & the Populists
Small farmers, sharecroppers, blacks, and poor whites wanted a political party that would fight for their rights.
The Populist Party was created to cater to their needs. This political party was known as “the people’s party.”
Tom Watson was the leader of the Populist Party.
While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was able to get the Rural Free Delivery (RFD) bill passed into law.
The RFD law requires the post office to deliver mail to rural homes free of charge.

23. Tom Watson & the Populists
Tom Watson & the Populist Party threaten the Democratic Party’s control in Georgia.
Therefore, the Democrats were pleased when he lost several elections from
In 1920, Tom Watson was elected to the U.S. Senate, because he had changed his views and no longer supported the rights of blacks, Catholics, and Jews. stop

24. The First Five March 18, 2014 CRCT Review
Which statement BEST explains why the term Bourbon Triumvirate was most appropriate for Joseph E. Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John Gordon?
They shared a strong belief in white supremacy.
They ruled Georgia consecutively for a period of over 30 years as governors.
They were political rulers drawn together by power and political goals.
D. They were known for excessive business practices and high profit motives.

25. The First Five March 18, 2014 CRCT Review Question
2. Political leaders who dominated Georgia after Reconstruction, supported new industry and white supremacy were called what?
Radical Republicans B. Populists
C. Bourbon Triumvirate D. Alliance Democrats

26. CRCT Review Showcase the economic recovery of the South.
In 1895, Atlanta was host to 800,000 visitors during the 3 month-long Cotton States and International Exposition. This exhibition was a way to:
Showcase the economic recovery of the South.
Highlight the region’s natural resources.
Lure northern investors.
At the 6,000 exhibits of the exposition, visitors saw new machinery and learned how cotton was made into marketable products.
3. The main purpose of the International Cotton Exposition that was held in Atlanta was to…?
Showcase the industries of the New South.
B. Get ideas from foreign countries.
Showcase the cotton gin.
Bring visitors to Atlanta
STOP 3

27. Summarizer: Newspaper Headline
You will create a newspaper headline that could have been written during the New South Era.
The headline will capture the main idea of the New South, and it will serve as the title of your essay.

28. Unit 8: The New South
SS8H87: The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918.

29. The First Five March 19, 2014
Agenda Message: Study for Unit 8 CDA on Monday, 04/04/14 Today’s Warm-up: Read pp and answer #1-4 on p. 113, in the Georgia CRCT Coach workbook.

30. The First Five March 19, 2014 Agenda Message: CDA April 4th, 2014
Today’s Warm-up: Which piece of legislation allowed less populated counties in Georgia to have greater power in the General Assembly as the more populated counties? It ended in 1963 because it was unconstitutional.

31. Segregation & Discrimination
Southern whites (Democratic Party from 1880s-1910s) wanted to keep African Americans from having political rights.
People feared African Americans would rule Georgia politics and gain social equality.
Different strategies were used to disenfranchise or deprive black men of their right to vote.

32. Disenfranchisement
By 1908, Georgia used ways to prevent African American men from voting:
Poll Tax = fee paid before a person could vote.
Literacy Test = test to see if people could read and understand the Constitution.
Grandfather Clause = a new law that said a man could vote if a man’s father or grandfather could have voted in a Georgia election before 1867.
White Primary = elections only white men could vote in.

33. Jim Crow Laws
Southern states passed Jim Crow Laws to separate the races.
It segregated public places (restaurants, trains, water fountains, schools, hospitals, theaters, pools, etc.).
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that separate but equal facilities were not unconstitutional.

34. Plessy vs. Ferguson
Jot down at least 7 to 10 facts from the two videos on your own paper

35. Black Leadership in the New South
Booker T. Washington
Encouraged African Americans to learn trade skills.
Skills = job = Economic Strength
Created Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
W.E.B DuBois
Disagreed with Booker T. Washington
Believed African Americans deserved equal access to political, social, & economic worlds of the South.
Education = Success; Talented Tenth
Atlanta University Professor

36. CRCT PRACTICE
1. The framers of the Constitution built the idea of “separation of powers” into the Constitution. What does that mean?
A way to ensure that the three branches worked together fairly.
All citizens must obey the law.
Basic government roles are divided into branches; no one branch is given all of the power.
People exercise their power by voting for their political representatives
Why did the U. S. government want to move the Cherokee from their land?
To end Cherokee was warfare
To take their land for settlers to farm.
To end Cherokee warfare and to take their land for settlers to farm.
They didn’t. They agreed to share the land with the Cherokee.

37. CRCT PRACTICE
Who was credited with taking the first steps toward helping the Cherokee to read?
Elias Boudinot
Sequoyah
John Ross
Alexander McGullvery
4. Parliament imposed a Stamp Act on the colonists in What was the purpose of the Act?
It reduced the tax on Dutch and French molasses.
It imposed a tax on all goods imported to the colonies.
It allowed news to pass form town to town.
It required that all legal and commercial documents carried a stamp that showed that the tax had been paid.

38. Lugenia Burns Hope
Created different community programs in Atlanta to improve the living conditions of African Americans.
Married John Hope, who was the President of Morehouse College in 1906.

39. Rebecca Latimer Felton
She was the 1st woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
She campaigned for the following causes:
Anti-lynching
Prohibition (banning of alcohol)
Suffrage (women’s right to vote)
Anti-smoking
Anti-drinking of Coca-Cola
Child care
Compulsory school attendance
Admission of women to UGA

40. Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
In September 1906, both The Atlanta Journal & The Atlanta Constitution newspapers reported several attacks on white women.
These reports set off a race riot.
Angry white mobs of men went to African American neighborhoods in Atlanta, attacking people, destroying homes, and burning down black owned businesses.
There were reports that African Americans were killed.

41. Who do you think murdered Mary Phagen?
Leo Frank Case
Who do you think murdered Mary Phagen?

42. Ticket out the Door: 5Ws Who was Tom Watson? Where was he from?
What did he do during the Populist Movement?
When did he become a U.S. Senator?
Why did he no longer want blacks to vote for him?
STOP 4