SS8H7

The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918. Evaluate the impact the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Exposition, Tom Watson and the Populists, Rebecca Latimer Felton, the 1906 Atlanta Riot, the Leo Frank Case, and the county unit system had on Georgia during this period. Analyze how rights were denied to African-Americans through Jim Crow laws, Plessy Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence. Explain the roles of Booker T Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, John and Lugenia Burns Hope, and Alonzo Herndon. Explain reasons for World War I and describe Georgia's contributions.