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Zorluk: OrtaThe New South and Jim Crow

"We may build cotton mills, we may construct furnaces, we may dig mines, we may cover the land with railways, but if we do not elevate the laboring class, our progress will be a delusion. ... As long as the Negro is degraded, the white man will be degraded also. Segregation and disenfranchisement do not build a wealthy empire; they breed poverty, ignorance, and stagnation for all."

— Lewis Harvie Blair, *The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro*, 1889

Which of the following perspectives dominant in the late nineteenth-century South does the author’s argument most directly challenge?

  1. The belief that industrialization and economic modernization would bring widespread prosperity to the region.Cevap
  2. B
    The assertion that federal military intervention was necessary to protect the constitutional rights of freedmen.
  3. C
    The claim that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments had successfully established racial equality in Southern society.
  4. D
    The view that Progressive Era reforms would soon eliminate rural poverty and the sharecropping system.

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The belief that industrialization and economic modernization would bring widespread prosperity to the region.
The correct answer is correct because the author directly critiques the idea that industrial growth (represented by cotton mills, furnaces, mines, and railways) would bring genuine prosperity to the South without social and legal reform for Black Americans. This challenges the 'New South' creed promoted by boosters who argued that economic modernization alone would lead to a prosperous region.

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1
Analyze the stimulus to identify the author's main argument.
The author argues that building mills, furnaces, mines, and railways will be a 'delusion' if the South continues to segregate and degrade its Black labor force.
This establishes the core perspective of the author regarding Southern economic development.
2
Identify the historical context and the dominant ideology of the late nineteenth-century South.
The 'New South' ideology, promoted by boosters like Henry Grady, championed industrialization and modernization as the keys to Southern recovery and wealth.
This allows comparison between the author's critique and the prevailing views of the era.
3
Evaluate the options to find which perspective the author directly challenges.
The belief that industrialization and modernization alone would bring prosperity is directly challenged by the author's assertion that such progress is a delusion without racial equality.
This identifies the correct option based on the analysis.

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The New South Creed and its limitations due to Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement.
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