Chapter 17: The Last West and the New South (1865-1900)
The New South and Farm Problems: North, South, and West
Part 2
1. What was happening in the South as the West was being won?
2. How did Atlanta Constitution editor Henry Grady spread the gospel of the New South? What did he argue in favor of?
How did local governments respond?
3. What kind of economic progress did southern cities experience during the late 19th Century?
4. What were the causes of the high levels of poverty that existed in the South during the last half of the 19th Century?
5. The South’s postwar economy remained closely tied to cotton and the amount of acreage planted in cotton doubled. In
spite of this growth and productivity, the cotton farmer’s problems increased, why?
6. As the cotton prices declined due to overproduction and availability, some farmers began to diversify their farming.
George Washington Carver played a significant role. Who was he and what did he do?
7. Who were the “redeemers” and how did they gain and maintain their political power?
8. What is segregation?
9. Starting in the late 1790’s, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one Reconstruction act after another applying to civil
rights. What was the ruling of the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?
10. What was the ruling of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson? (1896)
The New South and Farm Problems: North, South, and West
Part 2
1. What was happening in the South as the West was being won?
2. How did Atlanta Constitution editor Henry Grady spread the gospel of the New South? What did he argue in favor of?
How did local governments respond?
3. What kind of economic progress did southern cities experience during the late 19th Century?
4. What were the causes of the high levels of poverty that existed in the South during the last half of the 19th Century?
5. The South’s postwar economy remained closely tied to cotton and the amount of acreage planted in cotton doubled. In
spite of this growth and productivity, the cotton farmer’s problems increased, why?
6. As the cotton prices declined due to overproduction and availability, some farmers began to diversify their farming.
George Washington Carver played a significant role. Who was he and what did he do?
7. Who were the “redeemers” and how did they gain and maintain their political power?
8. What is segregation?
9. Starting in the late 1790’s, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one Reconstruction act after another applying to civil
rights. What was the ruling of the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?
10. What was the ruling of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson? (1896)
