1. The New South Focus Questions:
What were the achievements/failures of Reconstruction?
Identify some of the industries that southerners used to develop their economy after the Civil War.
Describe the development of the Democratic Party in the south after the Civil War.
What were some of the issues faced by blacks in the south?
The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose.
As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.

2. The New South
●The end of Reconstruction
*Achievements
*Failures

3. ●Economic growth of South ●Concept of the New South
●Economic growth of South ●Concept of the New South *Henry Grady’s background *His vision

4. New Southern Industries
●Development of the tobacco industry
*Techniques used by Buck Duke for growth
*Creation and breakup of the American Tobacco Company

5. ●Cotton Textiles
●Rice
●Sugar

6. ●Coal production
●Lumber Industry
●Other products

7. Bourbon Redeemers
●Nature of the Bourbons
●Two Basic Principles
●“Mongrel Coalition”

8. Southern Democratic Legislation ●Black Codes/Jim Crow

9. Negative Aspects of Redeemers: Segregation
●Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896: “Separate but Equal”
●Public areas
●Transportation

10. Agriculture in the New South ●Attitudes of former slaves ●“Forty acres and a mule” ●Crop Lien system, Sharecropping and Tenant Farming

11. Bourbon Economic Policies
●Retrenchment in government spending
●Convict lease system (chain gangs)
●Repudiation of Confederate debts in some states

12. Positive contributions of the Bourbons