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AP United States History›Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898›Period 6: 1865–1898

The New South

After Reconstruction, Southern leaders promoted industry while sharecropping and Jim Crow kept most Black Southerners poor and disenfranchised.

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6Period 6: 1865–1898

Industrialization and the Gilded Age
The New South
Immigration, Urbanization, and Labor
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Also called: new south, jim crow, sharecropping