3. The New South: Change & Continuity

3. The New South: Change & Continuity

by Joseph Grant

Open Ended

Warm Up Question:

After watching the video:

Describe in 1-3 sentences, the South's economy before the Civil War.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Textile mills and tobacco factories emerged in the South, especially in NC, in the 1870s-1890s.

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​In the Industry & Manufacturing Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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​Textile mills and tobacco factories emerged in the South, especially in NC, in the 1870s-1890s.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Plans for a New South largely failed. By 1900, per-capita income in the South was forty percent less than the national average, and rural poverty persisted across much of the South well into the twentieth century.

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​​In the Industry & Manufacturing Section in the "Continuity" box drag and drop the following:

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Plans for a New South largely failed. By 1900, per-capita income in the South was forty percent less than the national average, and rural poverty persisted across much of the South well into the twentieth century.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Birmingham, Alabama prospered from iron and steel manufacturing, and mining and furniture production benefited other parts of the South. Likewise, James Duke made use of newly-invented cigarette rolling machines to feed the growing market for tobacco and founded the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1890.

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​​In the Industry & Manufacturing Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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Birmingham, Alabama prospered from iron and steel manufacturing, and mining and furniture production benefited other parts of the South. Likewise, James Duke made use of newly-invented cigarette rolling machines to feed the growing market for tobacco and founded the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1890.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Beginning in the early 1880s, northern capitalists invested in building textile mills in the southern Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, drawn to the region by the fact that they could pay southern mill workers at half the rate of workers in northern mills. Due to these low wages, the mills gave only a modest boost to the southern economies in which they were built.

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​​In the Industry & Manufacturing Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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Beginning in the early 1880s, northern capitalists invested in building textile mills in the southern Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

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​​In the Industry & Manufacturing Section in the "Continuity" drag and drop the following:

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Northern Capitalists could pay southern mill workers at half the rate of workers in northern mills. Due to these low wages, the mills gave only a modest boost to the southern economies in which they were built

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South.

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​​In the "Tenant Farming & Sharecropping" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slave owners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands. Those who worked the fields shared a portion of the crop yield with the landlord as payment for renting the land.

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​​In the "Tenant Farming & Sharecropping" Section in the "Continuity" drag and drop the following:

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Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slave owners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands. Those who worked the fields shared a portion of the crop yield with the landlord as payment for renting the land.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Under the sharecropping system, the landlord typically supplied the capital to buy the seed and equipment needed to sow, cultivate, and harvest a crop, while the sharecropper supplied the labor. In other tenancy farming arrangements the laborer, not the landowner, took responsibility for purchase of seed and equipment.

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​​In the "Tenant Farming & Sharecropping" Section in the "Continuity" drag and drop the following:

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Under the sharecropping system, the landlord typically supplied the capital to buy the seed and equipment needed to sow, cultivate, and harvest a crop, while the sharecropper supplied the labor. In other tenancy farming arrangements the laborer, not the landowner, took responsibility for purchase of seed and equipment.

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Open Ended

Why would the cartoon claim the Civil War was a “useless war” and the Compromise was a betrayal? 

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Jim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s.

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• Continuity

​​In the "Jim Crow & Plessy v. Ferguson" Section in the "Continuity" box drag and drop the following:

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Jim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.

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• Continuity

​​In the "Jim Crow & Plessy v. Ferguson" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

African Americans who dared to challenge segregation faced arrest or violent reprisal.

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​​In the "Jim Crow & Plessy v. Ferguson" Section in the "Continuity" box drag and drop the following:

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African Americans who dared to challenge segregation faced arrest or violent reprisal.

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Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

In 1896, the Supreme Court declared Jim Crow segregation legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. The Court ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations African Americans were permitted under the Constitution.

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​​In the "Jim Crow & Plessy v. Ferguson" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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In 1896, the Supreme Court declared Jim Crow segregation legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. The Court ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations African Americans were permitted under the Constitution.

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Multiple Choice

Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Booker T. Washington preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity and accomodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed in education in the crafts, industrial and farming skills and the cultivation of the virtues of patience, enterprise and thrift. This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society.

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​​In the "Reforms & Ideas" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

Booker T. Washington preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity and accomodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed in education in the crafts, industrial and farming skills and the cultivation of the virtues of patience, enterprise and thrift. This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society.

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Multiple Choice

Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute to achieve his educational and vocational goals.

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​​In the "Reforms & Ideas" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute to achieve his educational and vocational goals.

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Multiple Choice

Change (new) or Continuity (old)?

W.E.B. Du Bois said no–Washington’s strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (he helped found the NAACP). In addition, he argued that social change could be accomplished by developing the small group of college-educated blacks he called “the Talented Tenth:”

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​​In the "Reforms & Ideas" Section in the "Change" box drag and drop the following:

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W.E.B. Du Bois said no–Washington’s strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (he helped found the NAACP). In addition, he argued that social change could be accomplished by developing the small group of college-educated blacks he called “the Talented Tenth:”

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​Make a Claim & Support it with evidence from your notes:

In what ways did the South change after the Civil War and in what ways did it remain the same?