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Who Am I?

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.

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Who Am I?

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

  2. 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

  3. Bourbon Triumvirate

  4. 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.

  5. Joseph E. Brown

  6. 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.

  7. John B. Gordon

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

  9. Alfred H. Colquitt

  10. 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

  11. Henry W. Grady

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

  13. New South

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

  15. International Cotton Exposition

  16. Transportation hub; capital of Ga

  17. Atlanta

  18. Mills that produced textiles that helped people with daily living

  19. Textile Mills

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

  21. Naval Stores

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

  23. Tom Watson

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

  25. Populist Movement

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

  27. Rebecca Latimer Felton

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

  29. County Unit system

  30. Where whites and blacks could not be together in public places

  31. Segregation

  32. Laws that required whites and blacks to be sperated

  33. Jim Crow Laws

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

  35. Plessy V. Ferguson

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

  37. Booker T. Washington

  38. Believed blacks should intellectuals

  39. W.E.B DuBois

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

  41. John Hope

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

  43. Lugenia Burns Hope

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

  45. Alonzo Herndon

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

  47. Atlanta Compromise

  48. Unable to vote

  49. DisFranchise

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

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