The document summarizes the economic development of the post-Civil War New South from the late 1800s to early 1900s. It describes the growth of industries like textiles, coal, steel production in Birmingham, and tobacco in Durham, North Carolina. It also discusses the rise of sharecropping and tenant farming, as well as the emergence of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Southern states in this period.

1. The New South

2. The New South
• Small farms
• Thriving industries
• Bustling cities
• In other words, to become reality, the New
South must emulate the North

3. The Road to a New South
• Textile mills
mushroomed from
161 in 1880 to 400
by 1900

4. The Road to a New South
• Coal production increased from 4.6
million tons in 1875 to 49 million tons by
1900
• Birmingham, Alabama became the
second leading steel producer in the US;
what city produced the most steel?

5. The Road to a New South
• Tremendous growth
in the tobacco
industry

6. The Road to a New South
• Washington Duke,
daughter Mary, and sons
James, and Ben, sold
tobacco in Durham,
North Carolina

7. The Road to a New South
• advertising, undercutting markets,
cornering ingredients
• Buck convinced four major competitors to
merge with him to create the American
Tobacco Company (1890)

8. The New South
• Two methods of tenant farming emerged:
• Tenant
• Sharecropping
• crop lien

9. The New South
• Redeemers or Bourbons
• Solid South
• laissez-faire

10. Jim Crow
• Disfranchisement: poll taxes, grandfather
clauses, literacy tests, and residency
requirements.
• Segregation:
• Civil Rights Cases (1883)

11. Jim Crow
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• “separate but equal”
• The pattern for Jim Crow was set for the
next sixty years. The issue of segregation
did not gain national prominence again until
the 1950s.

12. Is the south moving forward…..
or are they going back to the old
ways???