What's New About the New South SS8H7

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Populists like Tom Watson believed that some Americans needed more support in the New South. Populists worked to help

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Farmers

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Booker T Washington encouraged African American citizens to focus on industry and agriculture instead of political efforts for civil rights. This was called

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the Atlanta Compromise

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Henry Grady was

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a newspaper editor who gave speeches about the New South

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The convict lease system

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allowed business owners to pay the state to have prisoners work for them

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During the New South era, many people continued to rely on ____________ as their only cash crop instead of diversifying into other crops to make money.

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cotton

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Sharecropping meant that farmers who did not own land could work on someone else's land to plant crops. The sharecropper then

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earned a part of any profit from selling the crop

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For a brief period during Reconstruction, African American freedmen were given more political rights than they had ever had and would not have again for 100 years.

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True. The 15th amendment was enforced by the federal government in Southern states like Georgia.

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The Gilded Age was when

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some Americans made fortunes while others worked in mills and on farms for low wages

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Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote?

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the 19th amendment

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Why were "Jim Crow" laws passed in Georgia?

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enforce the policy of segregation