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In Tom Watson's early life he was characterized as a liberal. He was nominated as vice president by the populists party.
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The international Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta Georgia. The location was along the Western and Atlantic Railroad tracks.
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Booker T. Washington was an African-American spokesman. In 1895 Booker spoke in front of a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the U.S. Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Alonzo Herndon was a African-American barber. Alonzo and his staff were know from Richmond all the way to Mobile as the best barbers in the south.
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The Atlanta race riot was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes".
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In 1908 Lugenia Hope created the Neighborhood Union. This was the first woman-ran welfare agency.
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WEB DoBois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was called NAACP.
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Leo Frank was a Jewish man that was put on trail for raping and murdering a 13 year old girl. After twenty-five days the jurors found Leo Frank guilty.
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The start of World War I was because Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. World War I pitted Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and later the United States.
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The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia. The system was used t determined a victor in statewide primary elections.
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The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States began right after the stock market crashed.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program. It operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men for relief families as a part of the new deal
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The holocaust was also know as Shoah. The holocaust was a genocide that killed about six million Jews.
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Eugene Talmadge served two terms as Georgia's 67th governor from 1933 to 1937. He then served another term from 1941 to 1943.
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In 1934, he helped push the Vinson–Trammell Act, along with Senator Park Trammell of Florida.The bill authorized the replacement of obsolete vessels by new construction and a gradual increase of ships within the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty, 1922 and London Naval Treaty, 1930.
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Richard Russell served in the Senate for more then 40 years. He served from 1933 till his death in 1971.
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The Social Security was an act to provide for the general welfare. It did this by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate.
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The Rural Electrifcation Act provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies.
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The Agricultral Adjustment Act was a United Statess federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricultral production. the paid framers to use half their land and kill od excess livestock.
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World War II involved the vast majority of the world's nations. Including the great powers which eventually forming two opposing sides.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor. This led to the United States entry into World War II.
