Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 16

Instructions:

This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click “yes” for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and “no” for those that do not.

Conclusion A

Proponents of economic modernization and industrialization in the New South had some successes at the end of the nineteenth century, but the widespread practice of sharecropping persisted and agriculture continued to dominate the South’s economy.

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Conclusion B

Boosters for the “New South” promised that a new era of racial cooperation had begun, but new laws adopted by the southern states in the 1880s and 1890s codified African Americans’ exclusion from the region’s political system and undid many of the gains of Reconstruction.

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Conclusion C

By the 1890s white Southerners and the U.S. Supreme Court effectively institutionalized racial segregation through the imposition of new laws that denied African Americans equal access to public facilities and separated whites and blacks in nearly every area of life.

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