South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a phrase that has been used since the American Civil War to describe the American South, after 1877. The term "New South" is used in contrast to the Old South of the plantation system of the period.
The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887, or the General Allotment Act, was to break up the tribes and stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Tribal land was to be divided into allotments for individual ownership of the land and to make independent farmers out of the Indians. Any excess land was to be opened up for settlement.
He fought the influence of the Ku Klux Klan.