Guided Reading Chapter 12
Section 2
Directions: Use the information on pages 428-435 to complete the following statements.
1. In what way did Georgia change after World War II?
A. Agriculture became more important than manufacturing.
B. The rural areas grew rapidly.
C. It had to shift back to a peacetime economy.
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
2. Where and when did one of the nation's worst hotel fires occur?
______
3. True or false, most homes and automobiles had air conditioning at the beginning of the
postwar period. ______
4. How was the "three governors episode" finally ended?
______
______
Match Georgia's postwar governors with their correct descriptions.
A. Melvin Thompson C. Marvin Griffin
B. Herman Talmadge D. Carl Sanders
____ 5. Oversaw the purchase of Stone Mountain as a state park area; provided leadership for
the development of new public health facilities
____ 6. Converted JekyllIsland into a state resort; built the University of Georgia's School of
Veterinary Medicine
____ 7. A rural Democrat who campaigned the "old-fashioned" way; used almost sixty cents
of every tax dollar in his budgets for education
____ 8. Provided leadership for a new state constitution that expanded schools to include
grades 1-12
9. The ruling that the county unit system was unconstitutional and the reapportioning of Georgia's
voting districts resulted in a shift of political power from ______to ______
areas, and also influenced ______.
Section 3
Directions: Use the information on pages 436-451 to complete the following statements.
1. True or false, at the end of World War II, African Americans returning home to the United
States found significant changes in attitudes towards blacks. ______
2. The Supreme Court case in which separate-but-equal
schools were ruled unconstitutional and the integration of schools was ordered was
A. Plessy v. Ferguson.C. Sibley v. Brown.
B. Brown v. Board of Education. D. Gray v. Sanders.
3. The Sibley Commission found that, by a three-to-two margin, Georgians said that they would
rather ______schools than ______them.
4. In what year did Atlanta city schools begin integration? ______
By what year were all Georgia public schools integrated? ______
5. The woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus and therefore began the Montgomery
bus boycott was ______.
6. True or false, the Montgomery bus boycott was unsuccessful. ______
7. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s four-pronged approach for gaining civil rights for all Americans
included (a) ______, (b) ______,
(c) ______, and (d) ______.
8. What is a sit-in?
______
9. Which Georgia city became a center of civil rights activity in 1961?
A. AtlantaC. Albany
B. Marietta D. Augusta
10. Many African Americans and whites joined together to stop further violence in Birmingham,
Alabama, after what tragic event?
______
______
11. The most far-reaching and important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction that made segregation of all public facilities illegal was the
A. Voting Rights Bill of 1965. C. Desegregation Act of 1965.
B. Civil Rights Act of 1964. D. Fourteenth Amendment.
12. The summer of 1964 was dubbed "______," during which time people
from all over the country came to the South to help ______register to vote.
13. True or false, after the Selma-to-Montgomery march, the mood of many people seeking equal
civil rights changed from the moderate, nonviolent approach to a much more aggressive
approach. ______
14. The Georgia city of ______has been described as a "city of racial
moderation," an "oasis of tolerance," and a "city too busy to hate."