HIST-3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Benjamin Tillman, Mississippi Highway 1, Wage Labour
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Ben tillman will be on the next test. Fe(cid:449) people i(cid:374) south duri(cid:374)g (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s had ele(cid:272)tri(cid:272)ity. Most transportation was foot or horse, roads, occasionally a car. Souther(cid:374) diet, (cid:1007) (cid:373)"s: meat, molasses, mule, hogs and hominy: pork and corn. Cities had more electricity, but most homes were heated by coal or gas. *differences between southern cities and northern cities * (cid:1005). souther(cid:374) (cid:272)ities (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t as de(cid:374)sely populated as (cid:374)orther(cid:374) (cid:272)ities. Southern cities developed before automobiles a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t desig(cid:374)ed for (cid:272)ars: different ethnic mix: few foreigners, more blacks, blue laws: more common in southern cities. Businesses had to close on sundays: violence rate: murder rate was higher than northern cities, continuation of trend that stretched back to antebellum times. North always had property crimes, south had violent crimes. Lo(cid:449) (cid:449)age la(cid:271)or (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ued to (cid:271)e i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t part of souther(cid:374) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)y u(cid:374)til (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s. Weakness of organized labor unions: reluctance of southern workers to join national labor union.
