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Write a brief summary of each term below in reference to standard SS8H7.Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Expo, Tom Watson & Populists, Rebecca Latimer Felton, 1906 Atlanta Riot, Leon Frank, County Unit System

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bourbon triumvirate is a group of three powerful and influential Georgia politicians, all members of the Democratic Party, in the post-Reconstruction Era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John Brown Gordon.

henry grady is was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the South.

internation cotton expo was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 4 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area.

tom watson was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia.

populist party was lead by tom watson and was a left-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States.

rebecca latimer felton was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, white supremacist and politician who became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate.

1906 atlanta riot was an attack by armed mobs of white Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, which began the evening of September 22 and lasted through September 24, 1906.

leo frank case was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention.

county unit system was voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962.

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