Chapter 19

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The confederacy had lost the war because it relied too much on

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King Cotton and slavery. In the future the South must follow the North’s example and diversify its economy by developing an industrial sector to go along with its agricultural emphasis

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According to Grady, the postwar South

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Held the promise of a real democracy, one could no longer run by planter aristocracy and non longer by slave labor

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The chief accomplishment of the New South movement was a dramatic expansion of the

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Region’s textile industry

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Washington Duke did what?

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Took a barnful of tobacco and beat it out with hickory sticks and sold tobacco

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James Buchanan Duke wanted even greater success, so

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He pouted large sums into advertising schemes and perfected the mechanized mass production of cigarettes

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With his competitors, they founded the

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American Tobacco company. Later convicted in violation if the Sherman Anti-Trust Acts. Duke later invested un hydroelectric power and aluminum

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What were other industries that came up in the south?

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Coal, iron ore, and steel

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Urban industrial growth meant the need for houses, so the

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Lumbering industry grew immensly

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By 1900, the South still remained the

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Least prosperous region

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What made it more difficult to own land in the South?

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Sagging prices for crops,

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What were sharecroppers?

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They worked under a single laborer, and worked for seed, fertilizer, supplies and a share of the crop

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This system became corrupt because of the

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Intense suspension between the land owners and landowners would often not give their workers a proper share of the crop

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What Was the crop-lien system?

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Rural merchants furnished supplies to small farm owners in return for liens (or mortgages) on their future crops

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Per capital black income was

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1/3 of a white’s

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The black illiteracy rates was nearly

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50 percent

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What were redeemers!

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Supporters of these postwar democratic leaders that supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination, as well as the straitjacket of a purely rural economy

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What Were the Bourbons

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They had forgotten nothing and to have learned nothing in the ordeal of the Confederacy and the Civil War.

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Bourbon governors and legislators of the New South slashe

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State expenditures, including those for the public school systems

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The ultimate paradox of the Bourbons was that

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As white supremacists, they tolerated a lingering black voice in politics and showed no haste to raise the barriers of racial segregation in public places

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Under the Bourbons, the disenfranchisement of African American voters remained

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Inconsistent, a local matter brought about mainly by fraud and intimidation, but it occurred enough to maintain control for the whites

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By promoting the growth of industry, the Bourbons led the South into

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A new economic era, but without sacrificing a mythic reverence for the Old South

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The post Civil War West offered the

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Promise of democratic individualism, economic opportunity, and personal freedom that long before go come to define the American dream

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However, the colonization of the Far West was a

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Tragedy of shortsighted greed and irresponsible behavior,decimated wildlife,and nearly exterminated Native American culture

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These African American migrants ware known as

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Exodusters, because they were making their exodus from the South

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Many of the African American pioneers soon abandoned their land and

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Moved to the few cities in the state

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The drama of the 1849 golf rush was created

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Time and time again for the next three decades

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What did HTP Comstock do?

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He talked his way into a share in a new discovery made by two other prospectors in 1859 and gave it its own name. Produced gold and silver and made Nevada a state

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After Colorado’s admission into the Union, there was a long hiatus because

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Of party divisions in Congress. Democrats were hesitant to make states that were heavily Republican

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After Republicans swept the election of 1888, the

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Dakotas, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico

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Fighting resumed with the Native Americans because,m

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Migrants began to encroach upon Indian lands in the plains rather than merrily pass through them

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Despite promise of protection by CO’s governor,

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John Chivington’ inexperienced army attacked an Indian camp with a white flag of truce

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In 1867, a conference at Medicine Lodge, Kansas ended with the

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Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahos, and Cheyennes, reluclantly accepting lands in western Oklahoma

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What was the result of the Red River War?

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Phillip Sheridan forced the Indians to disband in the spring of 1875. 72 Indian chiefs were imprisoned

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Instead of following up their victory, the Indians

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Celebrated and renewed their hunting

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The army quickly regained the offensive and

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Compelled the Sioux to give up their hunting grounds and goldfields in return for payments

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Joseph’s speech was a speech of

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Surrender

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A generation of Indian wars ended in 1886 with the capture of

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Geronimo, a chief of the Chiricahua Apaches

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Wovoka had a vision thag

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A deliverer would come and rescue the Indians if they did the Ghist Dance each full moon

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An accidental rifle discharge led nervous soldiers to fire

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At the Indians who had surrendered. Ended with a brutal misunderstanding

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Joseph G. McCoy recognized the potential of

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Moving the cattle trade west,where cattle could be driven through relatively vacant lands. Set up in Abilene, Kansas

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In the absence of laws governing the open range?

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Cattle ranchers at first worked out a code of behavior largely directed by circumstances

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Joseph Glidden invented the

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Barbed wire