13.+The+Origins+of+the+New+South

<12 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14> = = =The Origins of the New South=

//** Reconfiguration of southern agriculture **//

//Sharecropping:// Click here for more information on sharecropping, including contracts and pictures Click here for the PBS site "Slavery by Another Name"
 * After the Civil War, many freed African Americans needed work
 * Many of them turned to sharecropping (also called tenant farming)
 * A worker and a land owner split the profits from the crops
 * Land owner provided the worker with room, food, equipment in exchange for the worker growing the crops
 * Unfair because most land owners forced long work days, provided unsuitable room, and did not split profits equally
 * Often resulted in the worker "owing" more to the land owner and becoming indebted
 * New form of slavery

//Crop-lien System://
 * Farmers and workers could make arrangements with merchants
 * Take supplies needed for their farms without paying until crops were gathered
 * Risky, because if the crops weren't bountiful, they might owe more money than what they have
 * Created a lot of debt

Click here for more information on the crop-lien system

//** Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization **//


 * [[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="50" height="50"]]See USII.I for information on the start of industrialization**

//** Politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disenfranchisement **//


 * [[image:rotating gif.gif width="50" height="50"]]See USI.40 for information on the voting bloc of the south**


 * [[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="50" height="50"]]See USI.41 for information on Jim Crow laws and segregation**


 * Sources:**
 * Coffman, Standard 13: The Origins of the New South**