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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? 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
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.
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.
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
Idea that the south needed to change to be more industrialized economy
Expo that showed Atlanta was ready for industry. This expo also attracted many northern business leaders in 1895
Mills that produced textiles that helped people with daily living
Products traditionally used to build and maintain wooden sailing ships, such as turpentine, rosin, etc.
Didn’t like the new south program and believed in the populist party. Also, ran for governor two times and lost both times
Movement by small farmers to get the government to regulate the economy so they could get more money for their crops
Wife of a progressive congressman and wrote articles for newspapers that challenged bourbon triumvirate Fought for womens suffrage
A system of voting that elects the candidate with the most counties wins
Where whites and blacks could not be together in public places
Case where half black Plessey seat on a white rail car in Louisiana
Former slave that believed that blacks should focus on learning a form of manual labor
Severed as first black professor at Morehouse and became first black president at Atlanta university
Wife of Johns Hope and was a social activist and welfare worker
Started Atlanta Life Insurance Company and helped Auburn Avenue win the nickname “black wall street”
Riot over racical tension between whites and blacks that over 20 blacks and 2 whites died