1. Unit 5 New South: Grady, Watson, Felton

2. “The New South”
New South: A phrase used to describe southern progress in the late 1800s…Industry!
Henry W. Grady: first to use the phrase…editor for the Atlanta Constitution
Henry W. Grady
Example of Georgia Industry

3. Henry Grady Democratic political leader Supported Bourbon Triumvirate
Promoted/led:
-Principal planner for 1881 International Cotton Exposition
-Northern Investment
-Southern industrial growth
-Diversified farming
-White supremacy
-Cotton Expositions
-Creation of Georgia Tech

4. International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta hosted in 1881, 1885, and 1895
Used to market and attract business to ATL
Helped recovery and development
200,000 people attended
Ran for 2.5 months

5. Cotton States and Internat’l Expo
Biggest Expo in ATL: 1895
800,000 attendees
Booker T. Washington gave famous: ATLANTA COMPROMISE SPEECH
Helped promote GA’s “rise from the ashes” of the Civil War

6. Tom Watson Fought for poor farmers, working class, African Americans
Left Democrats and helped form the “People’s Party” AKA Populist Party
Sponsored a law that created “rural free delivery”
RFD- Rural free delivery- a service of the United States Postal Service to deliver mail to homes of rural residents
Later in life….turned against Catholics, blacks, and Jews (white supremacist) in his newspaper The Jefferson

7. The Progressive Movement
Started out of the Farmers Alliance and Labor unions
Goal: Progress!
Society
Business
Government
fight poverty
improve working conditions
votes for women
prison reform
outlaw alcohol
break up large corporations
regulate businesses
decrease corporate power in government
greater voice of “the people”
more voters
did not seek to increase participation of blacks in elections

8. Rebecca Latimer Felton
writer, political activist, reformer
first female senator in U.S. history (served only 24hrs)
Married William Felton (state legislator)
Member of the Independent Democrats (against Bourbon Triumvirate)
Supported temperance, or prohibition (banning alcohol)
fought for women’s suffrage (right to vote)
Wrote for Atlanta Constitution