The New South SWBAT:

Economic changes End of the Plantation System – Now: sharecroppers and tenant farmers – a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. – Still dependent on landowners – Cycle of poverty continues; conditions similar to slavery – Freed African Americans are cheap labor

Northerners go to the South Carpetbaggers: Northerners who took advantage of Southern economic ruin to profit for themselves Scalawags: White Southerners active in new Southern governments Growth of Industry (less emphasis on agriculture)Railroads, textile mills, steel production, oil and coal

The Solid South Political changes are made in Southern governments Democrats dominate Southern governments Opposed Republican plan for Reconstruction

Segregation in the South Social changes were caused by white control of society. - Black Codes: designed to keep blacks in conditions close to slavery by restricting the rights of the freedmen - Secret Societies: such as the Ku Klux Klan used terror against blacks to keep them from using their new constitutional rights

Voting Restrictions Poll Taxes: all voters are required to pay a tax to vote in many states; designed to keep blacks away Literacy Tests: reading/writing tests required by some states before allowing a citizen to vote Grandfather Clauses – allowed son or grandson of a man eligible to vote in 1866 or 1867 to vote even if he could not pay the tax or pass the reading test, white men had no restrictions

Segregation Jim Crow laws: laws passed in Southern states Required social segregation in public facilities – the separation of people based on race

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