Checkpoint 3

By 1jsmith
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    He was born a slave in April in 1856. He would later became one of the biggest black influential African-American intellectuals.
  • Alonzo Herndon

    Alonzo Herndon
    He was a black entreprenuer and businessman. He was the first african american to become a millionaire.
  • Tom Watson and Populists

    Tom Watson and Populists
    He was a senator of georgia and he hired a bunch of poor farmers to lead the Populist party and in a political view point he attacked a bunch of worker for various jobs.
  • WEB DuBois

    WEB DuBois
    He was the leading black sociologist, writer and activist. He was very educated for a african- american.
  • Richard Russell Jr.

    Richard Russell Jr.
    He was a Georgia senate and was honored by government even though he was a white supremacist.
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    International Cotton Exposition

    It was worlds fair held in Atlanta It was held to show the progress of Atlanta since the Battle of Atlanta and it showed progress of cotton
  • Eugene Talmadge

    Eugene Talmadge
    He was a democratic politician he served two terms as the 67th gov. . He was one of the biggest white supremacist.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    This case was black who wouldn't sit in the right spot in a train and it was illegal to sit were he sit because he was a black man.
  • 1906 Atanta Riot

    1906 Atanta Riot
    During this time a bunch of white mobs killed a bunch of black people.
  • John and Lugenia Hope

    John and Lugenia Hope
    John was born to a white father and black mother. He was the first black president of his school. Lugenia she helped make a black persons life easier for them.
  • Leo Frank case

    Leo Frank case
    He worked in a mechanics place in Atlanta and a little girl was raped and strangled in the cellar and he was charged with murder.
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    World War 1

    This was the first world war it was caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. This is the reason it started.
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    County Unit System

    It was a voting system used in Georgia in this time to make a winner in elections.
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    Great Depression

    In this ten year timespan they had to ration food and money was worth less. This was caused by the biggest stock market crash ever to be known.
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    Holocaust

    This was time when Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany and he killed of 60 million Jews during World War 2.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC

    Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC
    It was a public relief program for unemployed and unmarried men this was a part of the new deal
  • Social Security (S.S)

    Social Security (S.S)
    This was made for adults who a disabled and can not work. They get paid a lump sum of compensation once a month.
  • Rural electrification

    Rural electrification
    It was a company that conducted power for rural parts of a city. It was passed on May 1936. It was an act of this time and is still used today in some parts of the USA.
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    World War II

    It was a global war started by the Japanese when they bombed pearl harbor.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    It was a attack on the island of Hawaii. On the Operation or Operation AI by Japanese kamakazi pilots.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

    Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
    This was a federal law of the new deal this reduced farming practices by paying farmers not to plant on part of their own land. And to also kill off excess of livestock.
  • Carl Vinson

    Carl Vinson
    He was a member of the House Of Reps. He was a democrat and served for 50 years.