History of the Americas

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Discover Memphis, Tennessee: The Home of the Blues and Birthplace of Rock and Roll.

Memphis, Tennessee City and state that was the home to the South’s new timber industry. Memphis, Tennessee is a city located in the southwestern corner of the...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Exploring Richmond, Virginia: History, Climate, Attractions, Job Market, and Top Schools

Richmond, Virginia City and state that was the home to the South’s cigarette industry. Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in the eastern...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding the Textile Industry: Production Methods, Raw Materials and Sustainable Practices

textile industry Besides timber, cigarette, and steel, what other notable industry was part of the New South? The textile industry is an industry that deals with the...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding Tenant Farming: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

tenant farming A system of farming in the southern U.S. where a person pays rent (and pays cash) to farm someone else’s land because they do not...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

The Legacy of Sharecropping: A Broken System That Influenced Racial and Economic Inequalities in the Southern United States

sharecropping A system of farming in the southern U.S. where a person is provided with land, credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, in exchange for...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding Crop Lien System: A Credit System for Agricultural Financing

crop lien White property owners or merchants used “these” to take ownership of the freedman’s share of the crops to pay off the freedman’s debts for farming...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Debt Peonage: Understanding the Modern-Day Slavery Trap and Solutions for Combating it

debt peonage A sharecropper that could not pay back his debt or loan was forced, by law, to work the landowner’s fields the following year. This was...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Legacy of George Washington Carver, Inventor and Scientist

George Washington Carver This person experimented with and promoted growing peanuts and sweet potatoes in southern soil in order to give poorer farmers an alternative to growing...