Question

1. What was the major cause of the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906?
A. Blacks became successful and owned property and businesses.
B. Atlanta newspapers printed fake news about black men attacking white women.
C. African Americans protested for the right to vote in a huge march in Brownsville.
D. The governor had sent the National Guard into Atlanta to guard the Exposition.
2. What protected poor whites from disenfranchisement?
A. grandfather clauses
B. race-based poll taxes
C. segregated elections
D. literacy tests
3. Which of the following statements best describes Tom Watson's influence on the Leo Frank case?
A. Anti-Semitism would have never existed in Georgia without Watson's magazine.
B. Watson's concern for the common man assured that, even as a Jew, Frank received as fair a trial as possible.
C. Watson's magazine inflamed the Anti-Semitism already existing in Atlanta and hurt Frank's chances of receiving a fair trial.
D. Leo Frank would have certainly never been lynched if not for Watson's cries for his blood.
4. In the South, lynching was used mostly against
A. blacks.
B. Jews.
C. whites.
D. Asians.

Answer 1

1. B — Sensational newspaper stories (false reports of black men attacking white women) helped trigger the riot.
2. A — Grandfather clauses exempted many poor whites from literacy tests and other restrictions.
3. C — Watson’s publications inflamed anti-Semitism in Atlanta and damaged Frank’s chance of a fair trial.
4. A — Lynching in the post-Reconstruction South was used mostly against Black people.