Unit 9 Vocabulary - New South

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Bourbon Triumvirate

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Georgia leaders that supported industry, railroads and mining,

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Henry Grady

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• - "spokesman of the New South"

• - Newspaper editor that promoted industry

• - supported Bourbon Triumvirate

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textiles

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• - woven cloth made from cotton

• - major industry in Georgia after the Civil War

• - many factories built in Atlanta due to cotton, cheap labor, and transportation (railroads)

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Convict Lease System

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a system that provided convict labor to private parties such as railroad companies or plantation owners.

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International Cotton Expositions

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a series of three large events held in 1881, 1885, and 1895

purpose was to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.

also wanted to show that Atlanta had recovered from Civil War

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New South

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period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.

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Populist Party

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Tom Watson

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Rural Free Delivery Act

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Jim Crow laws

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