• How and why the Bourbon Redeemers dominated southern politics after Reconstruction. 
•  How African Americans were disenfranchised after Reconstruction and subjected to “Jim Crow” segregation laws. 
• How and why the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 occurred in North Carolina and how the riot affected local, state and national politics at the turn of the century. 
• Bryson City lynching
• How and why southern tenant farming and sharecropping developed and how both led to cultural and economic stagnation in much of the South. 
• How and to what extent the development of a more diversified economy impacted the South after the Civil War and Reconstruction (e.g., textiles, tobacco, lumber and coal).
• How and to what extent African Americans were disenfranchised after Reconstruction and subjected to “Jim Crow” segregation laws
• How and why tenancy and sharecropping prevailed in the South after the Civil War.
  

Bourbons & Redeemers

Southern Farm Tenancy

Slavery by Another Name resources
History of Forced Labor Lesson from above
Question sets for above
1. Connected History of Peonage
2. Hard Times from Alabama's Past, Capitalism & Racism in a Cruel Partnership
3. Sharecropping Contract

Slavery by Another Name viewing guide

Rise and Fall of Jim Crow resources and lessons

Bryson City, NC Race Riot, January 1908...from New York Times