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mks693
mks693
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High School - 11th Grade

What role did the northern capital play in the development of the New South?

How did the rise of industry affect the lives of rural Southerners? Analyze these changes from the point of view of African Americans.

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Posted by mks693 on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM and tagged with american history, history.

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  1. pohnpei397 Teacher
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    I'm assuming that you're talking about the time after Reconstruction here.

    During this time, the great majority of money invested in Southern industry came from the North.  This is not surprising given how much more industrial the North had been and how it had not been devastated by the war.

    In a lot of ways, the attempt to industrialized didn't change the lives of rural people.  In 1900, two-thirds of all Southerners lived by farming, just as they had in 1870 (Henretta 2000, p. 555).

    For the most part, African-Americans were (when employed in industry) kept to the more menial and low-paying jobs.  Industrialization wouldn't really help them until they moved North during and after WWI.

    Message me if you have more questions about what I've said here.

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    Posted by pohnpei397 on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM

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    Posted by mks693123 on Thursday October 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM