HIST-1410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: American Tobacco Company, Jim Crow Laws, Solid South
4 Feb 2020
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Politics and culture [ethnicity, religion, sectional loyalty, race, and gender all influenced political life] Political participation and party loyalty: spoils system system in which politicians doled out government positions to their loyal supporters. This patronage system led to widespread corruption during the gilded age. Submission and the new south: after end of reconstruction, most white voters in former confederate states remained loyal. Democrats solid south : south"s economy foundered at the same time north experienced industrial boom. In only one area of industry did the south truly dominate tobacco: american tobacco company. Jim crow laws system of racial segregation in the south lasting from after the. Americans in public facilities, curtailed their voting rights, and denied other basic civil rights: amid the turmoil, some groups struck racial alliances. Readjusters whites and blacks determined to lower state debt and spend more on education: notion that black men threatened white southern womanhood lynching.
