GEO 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Miscegenation, Sharecropping, Literacy Test
16 Oct 2017
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If you self-report as hispanic, you are classified as no regardless of other races checked off (statistically) Internal migration in 1990s from ca, tx, fl, ny. Cotton in the south: rapid progress in weaving technology in early 1800s led to boom in textile industry in. Britain and new england: conditions in the south were ideal for production, cotton productions expanded and intensified from across the south. Increasing demand for and returns on (slave) labour: by 1860, cotton comprised 60% of american exports, right up to the civil war the economy of the north was dependent on slavery through its textile industry. Co(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)"s guarantee of voting rights: after democrats, who strongly opposed reconstruction, regained control of the house of representatives in 1874, the rutherford b. hayes won the most disputed election in. U. s. history, the military was removed and reconstruction collapsed (and democrats took power in the south) Ku klux klan: (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1005): the kkk raided the (cid:271)la(cid:272)k .
