Chapter 18 and part of Chapter 17

2. New Students
• Please take a notecard
• Write the following on it:
• Your Name
• Your Program (ex. Education)
• Why are you taking this course?
• It’s okay to say “because it is required.”
• One interesting fact about yourself
• Now, introduce yourself to the class using the notecard

3. The “New” South and the New West
• Today we will:
• Recap the era of Reconstruction
• Discuss the “New” South and West
• Cover changes in the South
• Race relations, Industrialization (some), Outward Migration
• Cover developments in the West
• Railroads, Mining, Homesteading, Migration
• Talk about the plight of indigenous peoples
• A few final things
• Look forward to next week: The next wave of industrialization in America

4. Crash Course: Reconstruction
• As you watch the video, pay special attention to anything that
surprises you, or that is interesting to you.
• I may occasionally stop the video to highlight certain things (John
Green can speak a little fast).
• This video will be posted in Blackboard once I open it up tomorrow.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowsS7pMApI

5. What was the legacy of Reconstruction?
• What stuck out to you from the video?
• What helped or hindered the situation?
• When did Radical Republicans take over Reconstruction?
• How did it differ than Pres. Johnson’s “Presidential” Reconstruction?
• What happened to the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?
• What amendment came out of Radical Reconstruction?
• What was the goal of Reconstruction?
• Did it succeed or fail?
• Why did Reconstruction end?
• Side note: What happened to Pres. Andrew Johnson?

6. From the Reading: New South
• How many of you were able to complete the reading?
• What role did the leaders of the “New” South envision for African
Americans?
• What is the crop-lien system?
• Were sharecropping, convict leasing, Black Codes, and Jim Crow laws
just slavery by another name?
• How was the “New” South similar/different than the industrialized
North?
• What federal case established ”separate but equal?”

7. Discussion Continued
• How did African Americans who remained in the South
deal with the violence and “separate but equal?”
• Who was Ida B. Wells?
• Who was Booker T. Washington?
• Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
• How did their views differ?
• What happened in Wilmington, NC in 1898?
• Who were Exodusters?

8. Westward Expansion
• The Crash Course video does a good job of dispelling the
misconceptions of the “Wild West,” while highlighting the efforts
of oppression geared toward indigenous populations, and how
even farming and the cattle industry were tied to industrialization.
• Link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16OZkgSXfM&list=PL8dPuu
aLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=26&t=0s

9. The West
• How did the federal government plan to populate the open West?
• When did this occur? Why is that important?
• What difficulties did those that migrated west face?
• Why did the government want to further populate the West at this
point in history?
• Who migrated and immigrated to the West?
• What industries brought people to the West other than farming?
• What cities in the Midwest grew due to one of these industries?
• What conflicts arose from the influx of people and property
ownership in the west?
• Why is this part of the reading called the “New” West?

10. Indigenous Nations Today

11. Railroads 1860

12. Railroads - 1880

13. Final Thoughts
• Please take out a sheet of paper
• Be sure to put your name on it
• Write at least one question that you still have about Chapter 18 or the topics
we covered today.
• For next week:
• Go back and read Chapter 17
• Be ready to talk about the topics covered on Monday
• Have a great weekend!