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New South 6.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why businesses moved to the South | Tax cuts, laissez faire capitalism, low wages, railroads |
| Who promoted business to move to the south? | Henry Grady |
| What is the main agricultural crop of the south? | Cotton |
| What kept the south from advancing? | Profits go to northern investors and lack of public education |
| What is a sharecropper? | southern farmer who often stays in debt to landowner in order work land. |
| Which group tried to organize workers and get better workers rights? | Colored Farmers Alliance |
| What agreement ended Reconstruction because Tilden offered to drop out of Presidential Race if Hayes promised to remove military? | Compromise of 1877 |
| Which Supreme Court case allowed segregation on the basis that facilities are separate but equal? | Plessy v Ferguson |
| Which laws created Segregation in the South | Jim Crow laws |
| Who was the owner of the newspaper the Memphis Free Speech that got burnt down and had to flee north? | Ida B Wells |
| Who promoted the idea that black people should accept segregation and work hard to prove their value. | Booker T Washington |
| Which black leader advocated for the immediate end to segregation and giving civil rights to blacks in the south? | WEB DuBois |
| Which group advocated that blacks return to their home of Africa? | International Migration Society |