The New South

HENRY GRADY

• He was in power during The New South time period.
• He was a journalist
• He wanted to focus on building industry in the south
• He brought more northern investors to Georgia
• Grady hospital is named after him

INTERNATIONAL COTTON EXPO.

• IN 1895 for 3 months
• showed off the south's improved economy
• Showed how cotton becomes a marketable product
• Brought northern investors to Georgia
• Highlited the natural resources in Georgia

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• Booker T. Washington attended
• He gave the Atlanta Compromise speech
• It brought lots of northern investments to the south

Bourbon Triumvirate

• Joseph E Brown, Alfred H Colquitt, and John B Gordon
• Wanted white Supremecy
• Criticized for not helping poor
• not improving edcucation
• Poor jail and factory condiotions

bourbon triumvirate

• In power during New South Time Period
• They expanded industry and business
• Reduced war debts
• Lowered Taxes

JIM CROW LAWS

• Restricited african american's rights
• Made segregation legal
• Made whites superior to blacks
• Plessy v. Ferguson made them legal
• Separate but equal

PLESSY V. FERGUSON

• A 1/8 black man sat in the whites only section
• Said it was unconstitutional to segregate
• It was ruled that segregation was okay
• Jim crow laws made legal

Rebecca Latimer Felton

• Remembered for being the first women to hold senate
• Temperance: the anti-alchol movement
• Suffrage: the right to vote
• Convict least system: a system in GA after the civil war
• In which prisoners were leased to companies for their labor

Rebecca latimer felton

• Was a leader in the temperance movement 
• Was involved in Woman's Suffrage Movement
• She wanted to make sure people obeyed rules in the Convict least system
• Businesses didnt follow rules of the convict lease system 

Booker T. Washington

• Said blacks & whites should benefit from each other economically
• Thought that blacks & whites did not have to mix socially
• Said equality would come over time
• Unlike Dubois he said segregation should bot be pushed
• He was a college professor & president of Tuskeegee institute

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Tom Watson & the Populists

•  Populist: Someone who represents the interest of people
• RFD: Rural Free Delivery Bill
• Rural families had mail delivered for free
• race relations changed completely 
• He was elected to GA assembly as a democrat, and became a populist

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