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SS8H7New South Era Changes

Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia during the New South Era.

Appears in: Social Studies, Grade 8

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Expectations

  • SS8H7.a

    Identify the ways individuals, groups, and events attempted to shape the New South; include the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Expositions, and Tom Watson and the Populists.

  • SS8H7.b

    Analyze how rights were denied to African Americans or Blacks through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence, including the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.

  • SS8H7.c

    Explain the roles of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Alonzo Herndon in advancement of the rights of African Americans or Blacks in the New South Era.

  • SS8H7.d

    Examine antisemitism and the resistance to racial equality exemplified in the Leo Frank case.

Georgia Milestones coverage

  • Social Studies Grade 8 (EOG) · History

    History

    about 50% of the test · 23 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.