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Rural
A rural area is an open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people. A rural areas population density is very low. Many people live in a city, or urban area. Their homes and businesses are located very close to one another.hihihi -
tom watson and the populists
The Farmers' Alliance and Populism. Later Years. Watson, one of Georgia's most promising politicians of the late nineteenth century, was elected Thomas E. Watson, 1904. The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. -
plessy v. ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
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International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. ... Placed a short train ride from downtown, it was designed so that the largest building could later be used as a cotton mill (see Exposition Cotton Mills) -
Henry grady
Henry Grady was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to presidents of the United States. -
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county unit system
The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was an African American entrepreneur and businessman. He is one of the first African American millionaires, and the founder and president of one of the United States' most prominent African-American businesses, the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company -
world war 1
On June 28, 1914, a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, in Sarajevo. Exactly one month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a racist pogrom in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. ... According to the Atlanta History Center, some African Americans were hanged from lamposts during the actual riot. -
web dubois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B. " Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. -
leo frank case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946, he died before his inauguration.
