Southern Culture

  • Foundation of Jamestown

  • First African Americans came to America

  • Plymouth was formed

    Formed for religious reasons.
  • MA Bay Colony

  • Indentured servants live out their contracts

    Conditions were hard and diseases carried.
  • Civil War Begins

    The firing on Ft. Sumter.
  • Civil War Ends

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    Sharecropping

    Sharecroppers dont own the land... There are laborers who contract with the owner of a piece of land, and they farm the land for a share of the profit.
  • Beginning of industrialization

    The South first starts to consider industry instead of agriculture.
    *Henry W. Grady was the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and advocates the movement into the industrialization of the South.He says, "Bring the mills to the cotton."

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