What was Georgia’s position on prohibition?
Organized reform and public institutions: women led temperance and suffrage campaigns, founded settlement houses and charities, pushed public‑health and school reforms, and created civic organizations that expanded social services and education access
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What was Georgia’s position on prohibition? | Organized reform and public institutions: women led temperance and suffrage campaigns, founded settlement houses and charities, pushed public‑health and school reforms, and created civic organizations that expanded social services and education access |
| Prior to the 20th century, what type of school system existed and why? | Fragmented, local common schools with limited reach: before the 1900s Georgia relied on local, often underfunded common schools and private/segregated institutions; Reconstruction began expanding public schooling, but rural poverty and local control kept systems uneven until later reforms increased state involvement |
| When did Georgia get increased funding for education? Who was responsible for this? | Georgia significantly increased public‑school funding in 1985 with the passage of the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Act; it was enacted during Governor Joe Frank Harris’s administration and was introduced in the legislature by then‑Senator Roy Barnes |
| What was Georgia’s record on child labor? | Widespread mill labor with late reforms: child labor was common in textile mills and factories; Georgia lacked strong early protections, and reformers gradually pushed state and national laws to limit hours and ages for work |
| Name and explain the accomplishments of women during the Progressive era. | Organized reform and public institutions: women led temperance and suffrage campaigns, founded settlement houses and charities, pushed public‑health and school reforms, and created civic organizations that expanded social services and education access |
| Who was Leo Frank? Of what was he accused? What happened to him? | Factory superintendent tried for Mary Phagan’s murder: Leo Frank, a Jewish manager in Atlanta, was convicted in a sensational 1913 trial amid intense public pressure; his sentence was later commuted and he was kidnapped from prison and lynched in 1915 |
| How did the Ku Klux Klan of 1915 differ from the Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction? | New, mass movement vs. secret guerrilla group: the 1915 Klan was a national, publicly organized, nativist movement emphasizing white Protestant identity and political influence; the Reconstruction Klan was a clandestine terrorist group using targeted violence to overthrow Republican rule and intimidate Black voters |