A New South and a New Georgia

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A New South and a New Georgia

• Chapter 14

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Chapter 14 Section 1 Vocabulary

• Monopoly
• Laissez-faire
• Sherman Anti-trust Act
• Suburbs

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American Modernization

• The US experienced tremendous growth and change
• Monopolies developed in many industries
• Steel, RR, telephone, farm equipment
• Sugar, fruit, vegetables

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Laissez-faire Attitude

• Government leave it alone approach to problems
  of industrialization
• Made a few very wealthy, many stayed poor
• Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act
• 1890-outlawed attempts to create monopolies

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Modern America

• Alexander Bell improved communication
• telegraph, telephone
• Edison found a way to provide electricity to many
• 1882-opened a power plant in New York City
• Electric street cars made it possible to travel
  greater distances faster

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Urbanization

• Millions of European immigrants came to the
  United States
• Towns and cities grew rapidly
• Very few settled in the South because of lack of
  jobs
• Those who could settled the suburbs
• Got away from over-population, filth, disease,
  noise

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Section 2 Vocabulary

1. New South
2. Henry Grady
3. Lost Cause Movement
4. Lint head
5. Market Town
6. booster

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New South Movement

• A group of leaders who
• Promoted industry in the South
• Grow more food crops
• Wanted to rely less on cash crops
• Cotton
• tobacco

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Henry W. Grady

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) editor
• Leader of New South Movement with
• John B. Gordon
• Joseph Brown
• Alfred Colquitt
• Politicians (governor and senators)
• Insisted whites were top of social order
• Promoted economic change
• Coined the phrase

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Lost Cause Movement

• Opposed New South Movement
• Confederate veterans, Southerners
• Could not accept the Old South was gone
• Did not care for
• Large cities
• Capitalism
• Mass production
• modernization

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Cotton Mills

• Employed white farmers, people in Piedmont
  region, whole families
• When cotton lint stuck to hair and clothes, they
  were called lintheads
• Looked down upon
• Leaders encouraged mill
• business for economy

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New South Other Industries

• Besides cotton
• Tobacco
• Steel
• Timber
• Coal
• Cottonseed

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New South Agriculture

• Wanted small, self-sufficient farms to replace
  plantations
• However, large plantations made a few men wealthy
  while workers stayed poor
• Sharecropping encouraged this
• Could not grow food crops
• Forced to buy food and supplies from landowners
• Stayed in debt
• Had to grow cash crops (like cotton, tobacco)
• Easily sold
• Pay on debt

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New South Railroads

• Mostly damaged or destroyed during Civil War
• 1880-10,000 miles of RR in the south
• 1890-40,000 miles
• Most Southerners lived near a RR
• Connected them to regional
• and national markets

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New South Labor

• Low wages, poor working conditions
• Convicts were leased
• Built RRs, roads, grew and harvested crops and in
  mines
• Most were black
• Beaten, underfed, did dangerous work
• Chained together to prevent escape
• Labor unions were not popular
• First in south was Workingmens
• Union 1, next The Knights of Labor
• Never very popular

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Market Towns

• Population 5,000-10,000
• Usually had a cotton gin
• Stores that sold goods to farmers families
• Larger ones had RR
• Area farmers would travel to ship their crops
• Boosters promoted their town
• Mail delivery, fire depts., electricity,
  telephone service, public schools/colleges

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Assignment page 310-315

• Answer the 3 Main Idea questions
• A.
• B.
• C.
• You DO NOT have to write the question, but you DO
  have to answer in complete sentences.

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Assignment page 310-315 Key

• 3. a. The New South became more diversified by
  adding industry and new crops to their economy.
• b. Northern businessmen saw great potential in
  the Souths abundant resources and raw materials.
• c. Those who opposed the New South did not care
  for large cities, mass production, modernization,
  or capitalism. They pined for the antebellum
  period in the south.

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Section 3 Vocabulary

• Crop lien
• Alonzo F. Herndon

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Georgia Business Industry

• Many small industries
• Buggy/wagon makers
• Small cotton mills
• Cottonseed oil mills
• Lumber mills
• Coal mines
• Brick factories
• 1900-15 industrial companies
• 11 cotton mills
• 4 RR shops

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Entrepreneurs

• Coca Cola
• Invented in 1885 by an Atlanta pharmacy owner as
  a headache remedy
• Charles H. Herty
• Invented new processes to extract resin from pine
  trees
• Invented method to turn trees into newsprint and
  paper
• Alonzo Herndon-black business owner catered to
  black customers when whites would not
• Crystal Palace Barber Shop
• Atlanta Mutual Insurance