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| Background of the New South |
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-shortage of labor
-no "cash flow" for paying wages |
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-work a piece of land in exchange for share of crop sales (place to live in as well)
-Debt similar to credit cards
-Drawback: no money till harvest time |
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Crop Lien System
(a legal HOLD) |
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-recieved credit for goods they needed when they had no money (not harvest time)
-if not paid in full debt carried over till next year +interest. Amost impossible to get out of debt
-outcome: class of poor whites develops, poverty everywhere |
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| -industries grew in the south, but on very limited basis |
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African Americans:
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws |
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1) pay to vote
2)read before voting
3) Seperation of races, "seperate but equal"
4)seperate in schools housing etc. |
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| Native American resistance (Background)- |
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-west of mississippi river
-populations decreased by 50% (disease & violence) |
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| 1st Official Indian Policy |
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| -Reservations System: forced to live on land designated by US |
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-program to administer the reservations
-"obey or force will be used"
-purpose to make room for whites in the west |
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| -massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado surrendered for relocation but were still slaughtered |
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| -first series of treaties btw americans and indians, but americans violated them all |
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| Paiute indian woman who told the "Indians's side of the story" for the first time |
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| 2nd official indian policy |
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| indians absorbed in US culture |
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| The final forced movement and relocation of indian people. New mexico, oklahoma and florida swamps. |
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granted up to 160 acres of land to any american willing to work on it for 5 years, after that the land was theirs (free)
-brought over 400,000 families to the west |
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| gave land to railroad companies to make movement westward easier. Also provided jobs (chinese immigrants) |
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| Western Expansion: Mass marketing |
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| newspapers magazines and catalogs to advertise goods on a large scale (men target audience) |
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| department stores and chain stores |
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| one stop shopping concept; increased profits and standard of living |
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| by 1910 60% was not native born; ethnic neighborhoods everywhere |
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