Southern Culture

By jkobrien

  • Foundation of Jamestown

  • First African Americans sold into slavery in NA colonies

  • MA settlement -- Plymouth Colony

    religious reasons

  • MA Bay colony

    religious reasons
  • Period: to

    Indentured Servants Start Outliving their Contracts

  • Middleton Place

    SC plantation

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Stagville -- Main house is built

    North Carolina plantation, 30,000 acres

  • CIvil War Begins

  • Civil War Ends

  • Period: to

    Sharecropping

  • New South Movement begins

    Henry W. Grady proposes bringing the mills to the cotton. This is the begiining of the industrializaion of the South. Grady was the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (newspaper) so he was easily able to get his ideas out to the people.

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