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Tom Watson and The Populist
Tom Watson was a politician, characterized as a Liberal, but later on showed an interest in the Confederation. The Populist party, or the People's Party, was an agrarian-populist political party, that played a vital role as a left-wing force in American politics. -
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International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was a world fair, that took place in Atlanta,Georgia. The location of the fair was along the Western and Atlantic Railroad tracks. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an African American man who founded the Tuskegee Institute , which is a black school in Alabama, that trains teachers. Despite being born a slave on a small farm in West Virginia, he still managed to become one of the most influential African American Educators. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Ferguson case was a trial brought to the Supreme Court. The case was about an incident where an African American man refused to sit in the Jim Crow car on a train, and in his refusal broke Louisiana law. The time he committed the crime was in 1892, but the end date of his trial was in 1896. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, which was one of the most successfully African American owned insurance business in the nation. He was on of the most successful African American business man and entrepreneur of his times. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The 1906 Atlanta Riot was an uproar about race in the state of Georgia. The reason the riot started was because of the work force of black men and their place on the leader charts. White elites were getting worried about their place in their own work force. Though the riot was about the working class of African men, the real reason the riot started was because of a newspaper that made an article about how African American men attacked white women. -
John and Lugenia Hope
John Hope was an significant leader in the Civil Rights movement, he attended public schools and later on taught at Roger Williams University in Nashville. Lugenia Hope was also a Civil Rights activist, who put her time into improving of African American communities, through social trade work. -
WEB DuBois
WEB DuBois was a leading African American sociologist, writer, and activist. He had an education at Harvard University, and also put towards his time to teach at Wilberforce University in Atlanta. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank Case was a Jewish man accused of raping and murdering a thirteen year old girl, who worked in the National Pencil Factory, that Leo Frank Managed. Leo Frank was found guilty of the crimes, that he as wrongly accused of committing. -
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World War I
World War One began after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The war pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, who were known as the Central Powers, against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan, who were known as the Allied Powers. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting technique practiced by the state of Georgia to direct a victor in statewide primary election. The system lasted from 1917 to 1962, without an official date. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the biggest recession of the Western Industrialized world, in history. It started after he stock market crash of 1929, which affected Wall street with great impact and wiped out many investors. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass genocide of Jews,homosexuals,gypsies,and the mentally and physically disabled. The leader behind the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. Adolf killed six million Jews and in which 1.5 million of the victims were children. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
the Conservation Corps,or the CCC, was a program for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the new deal. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agriculture Adjustment Act,or the AAA, was a United States law that diminished the agriculture production by paying farmers not to plant on a certain part of their land and to kill imprudent live stock. The purpose was to reduce crops to ensure the value to increase in time. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was an American politician born in Georgia. He was a Democrat and is most widely known for his efforts to strengthen the nation defense and to oppose civil rights legislations. He served as the U.S Senate in 1933 to his death. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served three terms as governor of Georgia and three terms as state commissioner of agriculture.He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive but died before he took office. His career took place from 1926 to 1946. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was on the Democratic side and served for more than 50 years as a House of Rep. member. -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification Act was a law that provided loans from the Federation, that gave isolated rural areas electricity. This act was passed as an attempt by FDR's New Deal as a way to deal with high unemployment. -
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World War II
World war II was a conflict about Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist. The war was declared by Great Britian and France after Hitler's invasion of Poland. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a strike made by Japan. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American navel base that was located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The attacked destroyed a mass amount of American battle gear and killed more than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors.
