The New South and the West

Why did the south need reconstruction?

After all the destruction during the war all of the railroads, farm land, communication lines, etc were destroyed.

13th amendment

Slavery is banned forever in the US

14th amendment

African Americans are citizens of the US

15th amendment

Your civil rights cannot be taken away based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

How did the south retaliate against the 12th, 13th, 14th amendments

Share cropping, black codes, ku klux klan

What is share cropping?

Farm owners let former slaves work on their land but took 80% of crops. Another form of slavery

What are black codes?

Laws that were specifically created to target African American

Election of 1876 runners

Democrat: Samuel Tilden

Republican: Rutherford B. Hayes

Compromise of 1877

In exchange for the electoral votes of Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina, Hayes promised he would end reconstruction

Lost Cause Myth

South weaponizes history by making themselves seem good and the north seem bad

Reflection of lost Cause mythology

Movie: Gone with the wind

What school did Booker T. Washington create for African Americans

Tuskegee University

What was said at the Atlanta Compromise by who

Booker T Washington said that education was the foundation of self sufficiency

What created ideals of segregation and being “separate but equal”

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Examples of Jim Crow Laws

Segregation

Poll Taxes

Property Qualifications

Literacy Tests

Who was Lation Scott

He was lynched for whistling at a white woman

What was the dynamic of the Transcontinental Railroad

It connected the country together horizontally

What was the Homestead Act

The federal gov would give an individual 160 acres of land if agreed to move out west and farm on that land for 5 years.

What is the Timber Act

Individuals who participated in the homestead act would receive 160 more acres of land if you reserved 50 acres for growing trees

The Desert Land Act

Individuals that moved out west received 360 acres of land to farm on and create irrigation systems and windmills on that land

What type of economy did Virginia City Nevada have

Mining Economy

Which frontier was most profitable

The Cattle Frontier

What was oil referred to

Black Gold

What was the oil geyser of the country producing 100,000 barrels of oil daily

Spindletop Texas