AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Disfranchisement, Jim Crow Laws, Lodge Bill
13 Feb 2017
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The 1890s and the rise of jim crow. They are farmers, and they feel left out and abandoned. They decide to run for office and they receive lots of votes. Which was how to turn rules into policy. They find out how to do it quick. This problem comes from the south, the problem with the farmers from the south is that they produce cotton, and cotton in the late 19th century because the cotton prices were going down. That meaning that the farmers were making less money, leading to producing of more cotton and the price eventually again goes down. The mass (cid:373)ajo(cid:396)ity of fa(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:396)s i(cid:374) the outh do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)a(cid:272)k do(cid:449)(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:272)otto(cid:374) g(cid:396)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g because it keeps black people without any power, they would be tied to the land. The populists want to break that racial divide. Populists had the notion that poor whites and poor blacks should work together to overthrow the upper class.
