Southern Culture By oliviasain22 Jan 1, 1607 Jamestown Jan 1, 1619 First African Americans come to America Jan 1, 1620 Plymouth Colony Jan 1, 1630 Massachutes Bay Colony Period: Jan 1, 1640 to Jan 1, 1645 Indentured Servents out lived their contratcs Jan 1, 1730 Middleton Place South Carolina Plantation Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Jan 1, 1861 Civil War Begins Jan 1, 1865 Civil War Ends Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1940 Sharecropping Jan 1, 1880 Stagville- Main house is built North Carolina Plantation Jan 1, 1880 Industralization of the South Henry W. Grady brings the mills to the cotton. Atlanta Journal and Constituion