Georgia Studies Guided Reading/OneSheet Ms.

Lacey

Standard The New South Date:

SS8H7 Evaluate key political, social, a. Identify the ways individuals, groups, and events attempted to shape
and economic changes that occurred the New South. Include the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady,
in Goeirga during the New South Era. International Cotton Expositions, and Tom Watson and the Populists

Scavenger Hunt for Seminar

Vocabulary: draw a line matching each word to its definition. Use the reading.
Word Draw Line Definition
Antebellum *Time period before the Civil War
Lease *speaking out in a negative way
Prosperous *Wealthy
Industry *To rent
Advocate *to support or recommend
Condemnation *to make products (Automobile, steel, etc.)
1. What was the Bourbon Triumvirate? ________________________________________________________________
2. Name at least 3 things the men of the Bourbon Triumvirate had in common.
1. ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________________
4. What happened to Atlanta as a result of the Bourbon Triumvirate? _______________________________________
5. What term did Henry Grady create to describe the time period? __________________________________________
6. What were Henry Grady’s views regarding “The New South?” ____________________________________________
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7. Name 2 ways Henry Grady was important to Georgia.
1. _____________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________
8. How has Georgia maintained Grady’s memory after he died? ____________________________________________
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9. What are the 3 purposes for the International Cotton Expositions in Atlanta?
1. _____________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________________
10. Why is the 1895 exposition the most popular? ________________________________________________________
11. What did Booker T Washington tell the public? _______________________________________________________
12. How were the expositions successful? _______________________________________________________________
13. Who disagreed with Henry Grady? _________________________________________________________________
14. Who did Tom Watson and the Populists support? _____________________________________________________
15. What was the largest change in Watson? ____________________________________________________________

Biographies
Bourbon Triumvirate Henry Grady Tom Watson
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