HIST 2620 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture I Introduction to HIST 2620 Outline of Current Lecture I Reconstruction summary of challenges II Election of 1876 III Lost Cause Myth IV Southern Sharecropping V Henry Grady editor of Atlanta Constitution VI Southern Industrialization VII Jim Crow Laws VIII Mississippi Plan IX Booker T Washington Tuskgee Institute X W E B DuBois XI Plessy V Ferguson 1896 Current Lecture I Reconstruction summary of challenges A 618 000 Civil War deaths and more maimed lead to lack of contributing members to economy B Death of current president C Economic cost of war disproportionate damage 4 billion lost in South 1 100 million due to Sherman s march 2 1800 factories in South v 110 000 in North North manufacturing unharmed II 1876 Election Hayes Republican v Tilden Democratic A Republican party had control so far Lincoln Johnson etc B Election resulted in tie from electoral college 1 Republican party argued that there was voter fraud C Democrats let Republicans have election on two terms 1 Terms had to spend money in South military needs to leave South III Lost Cause Myth Southern belief in glorying confederacy during war and arguing that the Civil War was fought for solely states rights and not to keep around slavery IV Southern sharecropping land owners loaned land to tenants in exchange for part of sales These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute V VI VII VIII IX X XI A Sharecropping becomes dependent on Crop Lien system loans made based on future money essentially a ponzi scheme Henry Grady wrote articles about the new south v old south arguing for industrialization in the newspaper called the Atlanta Constitution Southern Industries and urbanization required natural resources abundance of workers capital creation of steady institutions A Contributions to urbanizations 1 Steel lumber textile mills become common 2 Tobacco supported by James B Duke and American Tobacco Co 3 Coca Cola started by Dr John Pemberton as medicine but largely harmful B Industrialization led to hostility in workplace based on bad relations between management and workers Jim Crow Laws racial segregation laws A Laws resulted from black codes B Jim Crow referred to the character as a racist personification of a slave in minstrel shows Mississippi Plan example of way that state laws curtailed 15th amendment giving suffrage by requiring 2 year residency and requiring interpretation of the constitution to satisfaction A Understanding clause controversial part of Mississippi plan that required interpretation of constitution to satisfaction as judged by frequently racist peers Booker T Washington argued that blacks had to earn equality by proving themselves W E B DuBois attacked views of Washington arguing that equality cannot wait Plessy V Ferguson 1896 decision that allowed separate but equal segregation A Plessy was black and serves as a test case for Separate Car Law in Louisiana which segregates railroad cars 1 Plessy is told to leave as expected and the case goes to Supreme Court