The South, after the war and post-Reconstruction:

African American discriminationVery few industry/cities and agriculture and

railroads destroyed Post-Reconstruction 13th, 14th, and 15th

Amendments

The “New South”:Taxes- African Americans had to pay taxes on

public places where they weren’t allowedFarmer’s Alliance- banding together to lower train

rates, make government regulate bank interest rates

More urbanization and railroads to connect cities to rural areas and North to South

Cotton still the “cash crop”, King Cotton

ThesisThe South and West from 1865-1900 were all about change and transformation by urbanizing, expanding, negotiating, and the clashing of various cultures; because of these changes the people of the south and west found ways to adapt to these variations in their everyday lives.

Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow Laws

Ku Klux Klan:• began after the Civil War in the 1960s• secret organization of whites that

showed violence and terror to intimidate African Americans

Jim Crow laws:• arrangement of laws and customs

that were discriminatory towards African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the 1950s

• would put down African Americans socially and disconnect them from white people

American Indians:Forced onto reservationSand Creek Massacre Sitting BullBattle of the Little Big

HornThe Red River WarThe Ghost War at

Wounded Knee

White Settlers:Brought diseases that the Native Americans were not immune toBrought about the almost extinction of the buffaloBrought suppression and poverty to native Americans United States Indian Peace Commission

• The government issued a policy that moved the Native Americans to reservations so the white settlers could take their land

• Americans wanted a railroad that would travel across the continent

• Gold and silver had been discovered in Indian Territory raising the worth of their land

• Advances in transportation and communication just enforced their manifest destiny

• Homestead Act: government made an act to ensure immigrants would come to America- offered farm plots of 160 acres in the West to anyone who would farm the land– Pushed out the Native Americans

• Mining became popular– Vigilantes– Crews

• Transcontinental Railroad– Ran from the East to the West– Recruits from China

• Cowboy Era– Texas Longhorn Cattle– Cowboys would drive the cattle– Dangerous, cowboy culture– Barbed wire

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