The New South Era

What is the difference between a sharecropper and a tenant farmer?

• Sharecroppers got seeds, equipment, and anything else needed to make a crop from their landowner.

• Sharecroppers owned their own land and did not share their profits.

• Tenant farmers usually owned their own livestock and equipment.

• Tenant farmers were best friends with the owners of the land

____________ is a rock containing enough iron to be mined for profit.

• coal

• iron ore

• lime stone

• steel

________began as a railroad crossroads.

• Mississippi

• Anniston

• Mobile

• Birmingham

What kind of schools trained mainly elementary teachers?

• Tuskegee University

• Elementary Schools

• Normal Schools

• L. Baker's School of Teaching

Who founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for African Americans?

• Julia Tutwiler

• Booker T. Washington

• Jim Crow

• Plessy

Most cotton mills were built close to where the cotton was _________.

• dying

• used to make shirts

• far away

• grown

____________ are goods brought into our country from another country.

• Exports

• Goods

• Imports

• Exit Slips

What are three raw materials that Alabama had that were excellent for industry?

• coal

• rocks

• iron

• limestone

Goods sent from our country to another country are called _________.

• boxes

• shipping

• imports

• exports

__________ were the main reason towns and cities grew during the years after Reconstruction; they connected towns and offered access to places outside the state.

• Steamboats

• Railroads

• Cars

• Airplanes