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The South and West Transformed - Coggle Diagram
The South and West Transformed
After the civil war, the development of the west in Indian countries was taking place. a transcontinental railway was put in place to allow more people to join them.
11 new stares have emerged from the colonized land to the west and south.
with expansion came the growth of textile production. Cotton mills went from 151 to 400 and theTextile Industry grew. The Tobacco Industry was producing 125,000 lbs of tobacco annually with the growth of cigarettes. 54 million tons of coal, iron, and natural resources were produced in 1875-1900.
Crop-Lein System was system used by sharecroppers and small farmers who pledged a portion of their future crop to local merchants or landowners in exchange for farming supplies, food, and clothing.
many share croppers were free African Americans but they were still slaves.
this system was destructive to the soil because it would strip the ground of all its nutrients making it very hard to ever grow anything there again.
cotton production was very large and continues to expand at a very fast rate which lowered the price of the product.
many new faces were seen where the economy was booming. immigrants from all over would come to stay
Great Sioux War fought over land the U.S. government had promised to the Sioux Indians. in the end the Sioux Indians were forced to give up their land and move onto a reservation
The Mississippi Plan in 1890 made it that you must own a house, able to read, to be eligible to vote. this immediately disqualified African Americans because they were poor and never learn to read. Poor whites were able to vote because they were protected by the grandfather clause.
the grandfather clause allowed illiterate people to vote, only if their father or grandfather had been eligible to vote back in 1867.
in the 1880s society was "separate but equal" segregation kept Africans participating in white activity's or facilities
Plessy v, Ferguson was a supreme court case concerning a mixed-race person riding in the whites-only section on the train and refusing to move. jim crow laws were put into place after this
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation
after the news of this law crimes begun to happen because people were mad and some people were lynched.
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was a mass riot and insurrection lead by white supremacists and their target was Black residents and Black businesses.
African American churches served as a black community and come together no mater who they were.
Ida B. Wells was an African American activist and journalist who helped found the NAACP and advocated for women's suffrage and racial equality.
Booker T. Washington was founder of the Tuskegee Institute and black spokesman who argued about economic opportunities with civil right.
W.E.B. Du Bois was a advocate for black education and civil rights
The Atlanta compromise from Booker T. Washington was a agreement that blacks would work and obey the law while blacks would receive education.
cattle farming and mining transformed the land they lived on dramatically
$300 million worth of gold and silver know as the Comstock load was mined in Sierra Nevada mountains near California
it was an open range in the west and they could take their cows where every they wanted.