American History 102: 1865-Present
Stanley K. Schultz and William P. Tishler
Topic 2
The "New South"
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Identifications

  • Henry Grady
  • New England Society
  • Richard Edmonds
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • "Black Codes"
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Redeemers/Bourbons
  • Wade Hampton
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Mississippi Plan
  • Williams v. Mississippi
  • Property Tests/Literacy Tests
  • Grandfather Clause
  • "Jim Crow" Laws
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

 

By the late 1860s, some Southerners were already calling for a more diversified economy -- cotton was no longer "king." Increasingly there was a move from farm to factory, and many people encouraged industrialization in the South and an increased capital investment in the Southern economy from outside sources.

           INDEX

  1. The New South
  2. Three areas of industial advancement in the South
  3. Race Relations
  4. The Redeemers
  5. Maintaining White Supremacy

Supplemental web resources relating to today's lesson

Henry W. Grady, "The New South," 22 December 1886

"Rural Blues: Structure and Development in the Post-Civil War South," by Ethan Crosby

"Overcoming the 'Sour Grapes' Version of Southern History," by John P. George

"Jim Crow at the Bat: Apartheid in Baseball, 1846-1900," by Harlan S. Williams

Plessy v. Ferguson: "Separate but Equal"

George Smith Houston, the "Redeemer" Governor of Alabama
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