1. A New South and a New Georgia
Chapter 14

2. Chapter 14 Section 1 Vocabulary
Monopoly
Laissez-faire
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Suburbs

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Section 2 Vocabulary New South Henry Grady Lost Cause Movement
Lint head
Market Town
booster

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. New South & Other Industries
Besides cotton:
Tobacco
Steel
Timber
Coal
Cottonseed

13. 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

14. New South & Railroads Mostly damaged or destroyed during Civil War
,000 miles of RR in the south
,000 miles
Most Southerners lived near a RR
Connected them to regional
and national markets

15. 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 Workingmen’s
Union #1, next The Knights of Labor
Never very popular

16. 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

17. 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.

18. Assignment page 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 South’s 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.

19. Section 3 Vocabulary
Crop lien
Alonzo F. Herndon

20. Georgia Business & Industry
Many small industries
Buggy/wagon makers
Small cotton mills
Cottonseed oil mills
Lumber mills
Coal mines
Brick factories
industrial companies
11 cotton mills
4 RR shops

21. 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