Transcript Unit 5 New South: Grady, Watson, Felton

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Henry W. Grady
New South: A phrase
used to describe
southern progress in
the late
1800s…Industry!
 Henry
Example of Georgia Industry
W. Grady:
first to use the
phrase…editor for
the Atlanta
Constitution
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Democratic political leader
Supported Bourbon Triumvirate
Promoted/led:
-Principal planner for 1881 International Cotton
Exposition
-Northern Investment
-Southern industrial growth
-Diversified farming
-White supremacy
-Cotton Expositions
-Creation of Georgia Tech
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Atlanta hosted in 1881, 1885, and 1895
Used to market and attract business to ATL
Helped recovery and development
200,000 people attended
Ran for 2.5 months
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Biggest Expo in ATL: 1895
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800,000 attendees
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Booker T. Washington gave
famous: ATLANTA
COMPROMISE SPEECH
Helped promote GA’s “rise from
the ashes” of the Civil War
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Fought for poor farmers, working class,
African Americans
Left Democrats and helped form the “People’s
Party” AKA Populist Party
Sponsored a law that created “rural free delivery”
RFD- Rural free delivery- a service of the United
States Postal Service to deliver mail to homes of
rural residents
Later in life….turned against Catholics, blacks, and
Jews (white supremacist) in his newspaper The
Jefferson
Started out of the Farmers Alliance and Labor unions
Goal: Progress!
Society
Business
•fight poverty
•break up large
•improve working corporations
conditions
•regulate
businesses
•votes for
women
•decrease
corporate power in
•prison reform
•outlaw alcohol government
Government
•greater voice
of “the people”
•more voters
•did not seek to
increase
participation of
blacks in
elections
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writer, political activist, reformer
first female senator in U.S. history (served only
24hrs)
Married William Felton (state legislator)
Member of the Independent Democrats (against
Bourbon Triumvirate)
Supported temperance, or prohibition (banning
alcohol)
fought for women’s suffrage
(right to vote)
Wrote for Atlanta Constitution