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Foundation of Jamestown
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First African Americans come to North America
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Foundation of Plymouth colony, now MA
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Foundation of MA Bay Colony
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Indentured servants begin to live out their contracts
Conditions were hard and diseases prevalent that few of them were able to survive the seven year contracts. -
Middleton Place
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Stagville - Main house is built
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Civil War Begins
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Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping = sharecroppers do not own the land themselves. They are laborers (tenant famers) who contract with the owner of a piece of land and farm it for a share of the proceeds. Have to pay for equipment, seeds, rents for their lodgings. Sometimes they would start out the year already in debt. -
Beginning of industrialization/New South Movement begins
The South first starts to consider industry (manufacturing) instead of agriculture as an economic enterprise. Henry W. Grady is the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constritution and advocates the movement into the indistrialization of the South. He says, "Bring the mills to the cotton."