HIST-3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Benjamin Tillman, Bright Leaf, Secret Ballot
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New south: south needed to modernize, slavery was bad, south fought bravely. 1 concentrated on simple processing of raw materials. 2 relied on low wage, low skilled labor. 3 relied on capital outside the south, needed investment from north. 4 forestry industry, lumber and navy, furniture, iron ore, coal, phosphate, oil, tobacco, railroad south had good iron ore before the civil war, north destroyed it, came back. Birmingham became a city because of iron ore, named after birmingham in england where industrial revolution started. 6 phosphate was fertilizer and was important to south, dangerous gases and was done by mainly blacks. 8 tobacco: bright leaf in north carolina, american tobacco corporation, created cigarette. James b. duke: president of american tobacco corporation, duke university. Connected south small towns to outside world. Brought crops to market, brought consumer goods from new england and other countries, made southern farmers more vulnerable to outside markets.
