The New South and Jim Crow

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and figures associated with the New South era and the rise of Jim Crow laws.

New South

The term coined by Henry Grady to describe a South characterized by economic diversity, industrial growth, and laissez-faire capitalism from 1877 to 1898.

Henry Grady

Editor of The Atlanta Constitution who coined the phrase "New South" and envisioned a South with economic diversity and industrial growth.

Sharecropping

A labor system in which individuals work the land of a plantation owner in exchange for a portion of the harvest, often leading to debt and a new form of slavery.

Compromise of 1877

An agreement that ended Reconstruction, leading to the removal of federal troops from the South and allowing racial segregation to become the standard social structure.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

A Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.

Separate but Equal

The legal doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that permitted racial segregation as long as the separate facilities were equal in quality.

Jim Crow Laws

Laws implemented after Plessy v. Ferguson that segregated nearly every aspect of society in the South.

Ida B. Wells

Editor of a black newspaper who editorialized against lynching and Jim Crow Laws, facing death threats and having her presses destroyed.

Henry Turner

Founder of the International Migration Society in 1894 to facilitate the migration of black Americans to Liberia.

Booker T. Washington

Advocated for black people to focus on economic self-sufficiency rather than directly fighting for political equality.

Lynch Mobs

Groups that carried out vigilante justice against black people, with over 1,000 lynchings in the 1890s alone.