• Is freedom without equality really freedom?

Chapter 13 Reconstruction and the New South

13.4 The New South

I. Changing Economies in the South

A. Sharecropping1. Labor shortage2. Parcel of land for share of the crop3. No money to harvest4. Crop-lien system5. Couldn’t work their way out of poverty6. One crop agriculture

B. Industrial Growth1. Growth of Industry in the South2. Workers poorly paid

Assignment

• In your notebooks list the drawbacks of sharecropping. Then develop a plan for post-Reconstruction agriculture that would provide planters with labor while also providing African Americans with land and supplies

II. The Rise of Jim Crow

A. Voting- poll taxes, literacy tests, violenceB. Jim Crow laws- segregationC. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

1. Separate but equal did not violate 14 Amendment

Assignment

• It is 1896 and you are a southern African American. Write a one-page letter to the editor of a northern African American newspaper describing how Jim Crow laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision has impacted your life.

Jim Crow Laws

• Are there any laws that stood out to you?• Are there any that are still practiced today?• Are there injustices still evident today?

III. African American Life

A. Rise of African American middle classB. Farmers and planters

1. Remained poor2. Some bought land3. cooperatives

C. Industry and business1. Cooperatives in industry- Chesapeake, Marine, and Dry

Dock Company2. Small businesses3. Madame C.J. Walker- millionaire- beauty products

• What do you believe would have been the best way to achieve equality in the South?

IV. Response to the Jim Crow Era

A. Booker T. Washington1. Concentrate on economic independence to win

equality2. Seek training and education

B. Protest1. Ida B. Wells- journalist kept public attention on

lynching

With a partner

• Imagine that you are modern-day television reporters preparing a segment on historic Supreme Court cases. Prepare a 2-5 minute segment on the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Analyze the majority ruling, and asses the impact of the decision on race relations.

• Please complete Literature Reading and answer the questions

Possible Essay Questions on Test

• Describe the impact of the Jim Crow Laws and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

• Describe the positive points and shortcomings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the sharecropping system.