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title: "SS8H7: New South Era Changes (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS8H7
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS8H7
subject: social_studies
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# SS8H7: New South Era Changes

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

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 8, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-8.md

## 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; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

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