Sharecropper - farmer who works part of the land and gives the landowner part of the harvest A Cycle of Poverty Southern sharecroppers picking cotton.
Minstrel Shows. What are they? Working white class men dressing up as plantation slaves Called blackface performers Faces were painted black with burnt.
Objective: To discuss sharecropping and the end of Reconstruction.
The New South & The Trans- Mississippi West The Exodusters —first major black out-migration from a less-than-hospitable South Relations between the South,
The Gilded Age of America Political Developments 1868-1896.