6.4: The New South

Question 1

NEW SOUTH

Answer 1

• Henry Grady
• South suffered more in war because less industrially advanced
• Economic diversity, industrial growth and laissez-faire capitalism
• Growth and industrial centers in Southern cities
• South surpassed New England as top textiles manufacturer
• Rate of growth = rest of nation’s
• BUT majority still agri

Question 2

SHARE CROPPING

Answer 2

• People unable to buy or rent land signed to work fields of plantation owner
• Had to give owner share of crops
• New Slavery form
• Share-croppers still indebted to land owners

Question 3

PLESSY V. FERGUSON [1896]

Answer 3

• Louisiana law required separate rail cars
• Homer Plessy = 1/8 black = boarded white car and refused leave
• Supreme Court stated racial segregation = Consitutional so long as facilities = equal in kind and quality
• Stated Southerners still upholding 14th Ammendment of equal protection under law

Question 4

JIM CROW LAWS

Answer 4

• Segregated every public facility
• Blacks forbidden from jury and public office
• Accused of crimes w/out court appearances
• Lynch mobs dealt out vigilante justice [1000s lynched in 1890s]

Question 4

REFORMERS

Answer 4

• Ida B. Wells
• Newspaper about lynch mobs and Jim Crow Laws which was later destroyed by mob
• Fled North and continued writing
• Henry Turner
• International Migration Society [1894]
• Facilitated black migration to Africa
• Liberia specifically [lack of economy and lots of disease]
• Booker T. Washington
• Argued blacks didn’t need to politically fight for equality
• Needed to become economically self-sufficient for power in voting booth
• Washington, former slave, had done above
• Seen as impractical