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**Theme:** type here **__Topic__:** type here **Free Response Question**: type here Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** By 1877, with the withdraw of federal troops from southern states after Reconstruction, white democrats wanted to “redeem” themselves, and take back their political power, using the term, the “New South”. **Basis for Analysis**: Leaders in post- Reconstruction south wanted to develop an industrial economy and use southern democrats to help southerners progress in daily life, while suppressing African Americans by using “Jim Crow Laws”. **Partitions**: Members of the powerful elite were committed to “home rule”, racial relations and economic development. ****Thesis:**** Although the south made improvements, coining the term the “New South”, the reality of the growth was merely what it was before the Civil War. White Supremacy within politics increased class differences between blacks and whites, and economic issues played a secondary role to race. Outside Knowledge (OK) for each partition - delete these instructions after you have read them. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">3-4 pieces of evidence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Define the most significant events, controversies, agreements
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Specific details, concisely stated

<span style="background-color: #e1ff00; color: #ff4700; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">**Partition 1: Political** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partition 1-“home rule”(politics)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Democrats reduced taxes and services
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blacks had no vote, no voice in government
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kept African Americans politically inferior w/fierce attacks made by Ku Klux Klan

** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Partition 2: Racial Discrimination  ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partition 2- Racial Relations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some blacks attracted to the idea of progress and self improvement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brooker T. Washington believed blacks should have an equal opportunity to have a good education, sought to fight for political rights and concentrate on self improvement and economic insurances to gain acknowledgment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jim Crow laws : 14th and 15th amendments prevented state discrimination but not private discrimination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Used “poll tax” to keep blacks from voting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Segregated southern life and increased lynching of blacks

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">** Partition 3: Economics ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partition 3- economic developments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Growth included textile manufacturing b/c of water power, cheap labor and low taxes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tobacco industry grew
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iron and steel industry grew
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Still primarily agrarian- growth of tenants and debt peonage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“sharecropping” system –where farmers promised large share of crop for land- little money left over

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: Need to Know - basis of reconstruction - Jim Crow Laws of the south - new arrival of industries - political stance of southern democrats- "redeemers"