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Tom Watson and the Populists
At first he was characterized as a liberal ,but later on he emerged as a white supremacist and an anti-Catholic.The populist or people party evolved as the Farmers Alliance and Watson became nominated.Because of that people criticized him for abandoning the Democrates ,but he then gained a lot of farmers from Georgia and even rural black voters. -
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International Cotton Exposition
It was a worlds fair held in Atlanta,Georgia.It was held along the Western-Atlantic Railroad tracks.It was held to show progress made since the city's destruction in the Battle of Atlanta and the new development in cotton productions. -
Henry Grady
He was a journalist and orator who help bring back the Confederacy into the Union after the Civil War.He preached white supremacy and saying that they needed to stay in social control over the newly freed blacks. -
Booker T. Washington
He was an educator,author,orator,and adviser to presidents,but was also a dominant leader in the African American Community.He was in the last generation of black leaders born in slavery and became the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants.They were oppressed by disfranchisment and Jim-Crow,and he later became one founder of the National Negro Business League and he was based in the Tuskegee institute which was a historically black college. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It was a landmark decision.It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.It relegitimized the state laws re-establishing racial segregation that were put in during the 19th century at the end of the Reconstruction Era. -
Alonzo Herndon
He was born into slavery.At the end of the Civil War when slaves were Emancipated he was sent away by his father a white master.He still ended up becoming a African American barber and entrepreneur. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
It was a racist pogrom.It was characterized by other media as a "racial massacre of negroes."The number of people known as dead is still unknown although 25 African Americans and at least 2 European Americans,but the rang was from 10-100 African Americans were murdered while only 2 European Americans were murdered during the riot. -
WEB DuBois
He was a sociologist,historian,civil rights activist,Pan-Africanist,author,writer,and editor.He was born in Great Barrington,Massachusetts and did graduate work at University of Berlin and Harvard.He was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. -
Leo Frank Case
The body of the thirteen year old girl was found in a basement of the pencil factory where she had went to collect her pay check.During the investigation it was sloppy did because they didn't check the fingerprints left on the doorknob and the girl.they came up with a theory that said the crime happened near his office and she was dragged to the elevator and took down to the basement so they left out key clues. -
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World War 1
it was named The First World War,Great War,or the War to End All Wars.There were 70 million military and 60 million of them being from Europe were mobilised in one of the largest wars,but 9 million combatans and 7 million civilians died.It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history,and the unresolved conflicts contributed to the Second 21 years after. -
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County Unit System
It was a voting system used by Georgia to determine a winner in primary elections.It had been informally used since 1898 because it was enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917.It was designed to form as the Electoral Collage. -
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Great Depression
It was a severe worldwide economic depression that started in the United States.It was the longest,deepest,and most widespread depressions of the 20th century.It was a fall in the stock market on October 29,1929 also known as Black Tuesday,but some started to recover in the mid-1930s while others lasted until the beinning of World War 2. -
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Holocaust
It was also referred to as the Shoah and was done by Adolf Hitler's Nazi German Army.Jews,Roma,ethnic Poles,political opponents,homosexuals,Jehovah's Witnesses,incurably sick,and Soviet prisoners of war were the ones targeted. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
It was a public work relief program for unemployed and unmarried men.it was just for ages 18-25,but later changed to 17-28.It was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
It was designed to boost prices by reducing surpluses.They bought animals and paid farmers not plant part of their land. -
Richard Russell
He was a politician from Georgia.he was Governor of Georgia before serving as U.S. Senate for nearly 40 years.He was founder and leader of the conservative coalition. -
Euqene Talmadge
He was a Democratic politician that served as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 till 1937 and from 1941 till 1943.He was elected to a fourth term,but died before his January 1947 inauguration.He was known for promoting Southern segregation,white supremacy,and advocating racism in the State of Georgia's University System. -
Carl Vinson
He was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.he served for more than 50 years as a Democrat,and was the longest-serving member for U.S. House of Representative from Georgia.He was also known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". -
Social Security
The first social security tax was collected in January two years later by workers and employs paying one percent of the first 3,000 dollars.During 2011 and 2012 a payroll tax holiday brought the 6.2 to 4.2 percent. -
Rural Electrification
Its the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas.It pioneered many schemes practiced today. -
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World War 2
It was between the allies and axis,and was the most globe war it was really just a total war.Countries threw their entire economic,industrial,and scientific capabilities behind the war.It was the most deadliest conflict in history 50-85 million died and mostly came from massacres,the genocide of the Holocaust,static bombing,starvation,disease,and the first use of nuclear weapons in history. -
Lend-Lease Act
It was providing U.S. military help to foreign nations.It allowed the transfer of supplies without being overextended in the war.It also allowed weapons to be transfer to Britain without payment as required by the Netrality Act of 1939 which kept Britain fighting until events led America into joining in on the conflict. -
Pearl Hardor
It was a naval base in Honolulu,Hawaii that was was a scene of a devastating suprise attack by Japanese forces at 8 a.m..They destoryed or damaged 20 American navl vessels and over 300 airplanes also 2,400 people died and another 1,000 wounded the day after President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war.Ships like Uss Arizona,Oklahoma,California,West Virgian,Utah,Maryland,Pennsylvania,Tennessee,and Nevada had significant damage,but only Arizona and Utah were eventually salvaged and repaired.
