The party of Georgia's only U.S. president, Jimmy Carter
Whigs
Republican
Democrat
Populist
This founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company also worked as a barber in Atlanta
Martin Luther King, Sr.
John Hope
Alonzo Herdon
Henry McNeal Turner
Colquitt, Brown and Gordon controlled the politics of Georgia post Civil War & were called this
Bourbon Triumvirate
Georgia's Mighty Trio
The Three Peaches
The Triple Threat
The man who worked with King during, and directly benefited from, the Civil Rights Movement.
Ellis Arnall
William Hartsfield
Andrew Young
Benjamin Mays
To run for this office you must be at least 30 years old.
Governor
State senator
Supreme Court justice
State representative
These people take on debt and take a risk to start a business (ex. Alonzo Herndon)
Investment Bankers
Entrepeneurs
Debt Collectors
Risk managers
This New Deal program gave farmers money to not grow food.
REA
FRD
AAA
CCC
Focus on industrialization, low taxes, low services and white supremacy.
Eugene Talmadge
Bourbon Triumvirate
Tom Watson and the Populists
Henry Grady
This bug kept Georgia from enjoying the roaring 20s and worsened the Great Depression
Mosquito
Boll Weevil
War Weevil
Cotton Spiders
This person presides over the largest legislative body in the Georgia General Assembly
The governor
Lt. Governor
Chair of the Senate
Speaker of the House
Agencies in this branch of GA government include Secretary of State & Department of Education.
Executive
Judicial
Federal
Legislative
From Plessy v. Ferguson until Brown v. Board what principle stood as the law in the U.S.
Separate but Equal
Slaves are property
Cherokee have the right to their land
Separate is inherently unequal
In 1956, Georgia changed its flag to this to sent what message?
As a sign of resistance to integration
To celebrate the Civil War centennial
To show Georgia as an open, welcoming state
To honor Georgia's history
After a bill is first presented in either body of the legislature it first is sent where?
The other house for a vote
The governor's desk
To the floor for a vote
To a committee focused on the issue
Why was white Leo Frank lynched by the Knights of Mary Phagan
He made a white girl work with a black man
Antisemitism
He whistled at a white girl on the street
They hated that he killed a young white girl
To run for this office you must be at least 25 years old.
Supreme Court justice
Governor
State senator
State representative
This governor's death led to three people claiming Georgia's governorship in 1946.
Ellis Arnall
Eugene Talmadge
Melvin Thompson
Herman Talmadge
Led by Henry Grady the post Civil War "New South" began to re-brand itself as more pro...
Agriculture
Athletic
Industrialized
Independent
Type of local Government created by a charter to provide added, tax-funded services.
County
City
State
Special Purpose
Georgia's White Primary was an indirect form of this practice?
Candidate selection
Jim Crow laws
Disenfranchisment
Separate but Equal facilities
Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta, Helped bring the Olympics to Atlanta
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Maynard Jackson
William Hartsfield
Andrew Young
Since my dad was elected governor, I should be appointed governor!" who might have said?
Ellis Arnall
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
Melvin Thompson
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were the first black students where
Gwinnett County Schools
The University of Georgia
Atlanta public schools
At any Georgia School
Type of local Government created for a specific and limited purpose, often funded by fees.
Special Purpose District
County
City
State
Checks and balances allows what to happen in Government?
It lets the executive write checks and balance the budget
It keeps allows each branch some power over another
It allows the courts the final say
It lets each branch balance their own budgets
The Knights of Mary Phagan rose up following the murder conviction of what Jewish man
Homer Plessy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alonzo Herdon
Leo Frank
A moderate governor of Georgia who balanced the budget and increased voting rights
Eugene Talmadge
Sonny Perdue
Nathan Deal
Ellis Arnall
Georgia DID NOT provide which of the following to the U.S. war effort in WWII?
Training Forts
Liberty Ships
Bell Bombers
Nuclear power
What New Deal program did Roosevelt conceive of on his visits to Warm Springs
FRD
REA
CCC
AAA
Under this system, workers rent owners' land, materials, etc. and must share crops/profits
Populism
Sharecropping
Farm subsidies
Tenant Farming
This is the amount of money a person makes in a period of time
Savings
Debt
Income
Profit
Peaceful desegregation of schools helped this mayor sell major sports teams to come to Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
William Hartsfield
Ivan Allen Jr.
Lester Maddox
The mineral springs in Warm Springs Georgia helped Franklin Roosevelt's...
Powerful speech voice
Knee issues
Fighting strength
Polio symptoms
Jim Crow Laws applied to what aspects of black life in the South
Barbershops
Theaters
Schools
Public transportation
This group discovered 60 percent of Georgia's wanted no integration of schools
Organization for school desegregation
Moderate Coalition
Sibley Commission
Integration of Schools Committee
This branch of government decides if laws passed are constitutional
Judicial
Executive
Juvenile
Legislative
This branch is called the General Assembly in Georgia
Executive
Juvenile
Legislative
Judicial
Georgia is home to many military bases, several of them thanks to this long time U.S. Senator
Richard Russell Jr.
Herman Talmadge
Carl Vinson
Ellis Arnall
This system is designed to apply laws to people under the age of 17 in Georgia
Juvenile
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
Breaking these laws could mean a juvenile is tried as an adult and can go to jail for life
Seven Deadly Sins
Five Liftetime Laws
Nine troublesome act
Murder
The precedent set in this case allowed for the mass expansion of Jim Crow laws
Brown v. Board
Worchester v. Georgia
The Dred Scott Case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who might say, "Our people should focus on labor skills in order to improve our lives now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
John Hope
He might have said, "We need to protect our farming way of life by protecting our farmers.
Henry Grady
W.E.B. DuBois
Tom Watson
Booker T. Washington
Jim Crow is a fancy term for what behavior
Disenfranchisement
Segregation
Racial Violence
Antisemitism
These two men debated and disagreed about how best to improve black lives in the early 1900s
W.E.B. DuBois/Martin Luther King Jr.
Booker T. Washington/W.E.B Dubois
John Hope/W.E.B. Dubois
Martin Luther King, Jr./Booker T. Washington
To run for this office you must be at least 21 years old.
State senator
Governor
Supreme Court justice
State representative
Spending more money than a person has saved creates this.
Savings
Debt
Profit
Income
This branch of government is in charge of enforcing the laws and in Georgia sets the budget
Juvenile
Legislative
Executive
Judicial