What is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land
100
What is railroads
What gave a boost to the New South
100
what is is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
What is segregation?
100
The New South
What is is the term used in contrast to the Old South of the plantation system of the antebellum period?
100
what is North,South, and West
what were the farmers problems at?
200
What is cotton
What is the crop that ran the south?
200
what is the textile mills factory
What factory did the south have?
200
what is disfranchisement
What is the term for a person that can not vote?
200
What is New South Democracy
What is the other name for the New South?
200
what is corn and wheat
What were the single cash crops?
300
Because agriculture ran the economy
Why was agriculture important to the south?
300
what is Alabama
What state became a railroad and steel center where mills hired black workers?
300
what is a African American
What is a person segregated in the south?
300
It became the poorest region in the country
Despite the growth of the south what was the conditions of the region after the war?
300
What is a minority
What were the farmers becoming within the american society?
400
because landowners charged them incredibly high rents and didn't pay them enough for the crops that they grew on the land that they had rented and the sharecroppers this kept African Americans in debt
Why was sharecropping so effective for so long in the south?
400
What is Memphis, Tennessee
What state prospered as a center for the South's Lumber industry?
400
What is Jim Crow laws
What is the law in the south that segregated African Americans
400
Cheap (low-wage) labor
What was a reason to locate to the south?
400
they were driven out of business
What happens to the small marginal farms that was unable to afford the new equipment?
500
what is the crop lien system
what is the credit system that landowners used?
500
What is population, industry, and railroads
The South's rate of postwar growth from 1865 to 1900 equaled or surpassed that of the other regions of the country in terms of what three things?
500
what is Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
What is the case that stated that "separate but equal accommodations" did not violate the 14 amendment and what year did it occur?
500
Henry Grady is a editor of Atlanta Constitution and he said that the south was for econmic diversity and laissez-faire capitalism
Who was Henry Grady and what did he say about the south?