HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Populism
25 Aug 2016
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Lecture objectives: establish how black political activity forced the planter class to respond by enacting segregation and disenfranchisement. Also, discuss how the idea of a new south relied on myth making to achieve national reconciliation. Jim crow laws to prevent blacks from having any power or authority. The redeemers in power 1877-1896: composed of planter class and merchant class, reverse reconstruction and end black rule . Laws passed stating unemployment is illegal and warrants arrest. Populism in the south (1890s: alliance between blacks and poor whites. The law of segregation: prior fluidity in race relations, state laws begin to regulate public space. Newspapers, posters and media claim there is a new south : claim of new industry and economic opportunities, claim of racial harmony. Importance of memory: national reconciliation the let"s put the civil war behind us by misremembering it . Blacks removed from history of the civil war.
