Southern Culture Timeline

By taylor.winters

  • The Foundation of Jamestown

    formed to acquire religious freedom

  • First African Americans come to North America

  • Foundation of Plymouth colony

    formed for religious freedom

  • Foundation of Massachusetts Bay Colony

    formed to acquire religious freedom

  • Indentured servants begin living out their contracts

    Conditions were so hard and diseases carried readily, so very few of them were able to survive the seven years of their contract.

  • Civil War Begins

    The firing on Fort Sumpter

  • Civil War Ends

  • Period: to

    Sharecropping

    Sharecroppers do not own the land.
    Laborers contract with the owner on a piece of land, farm it and share the proceeds.
    Have to pay for equipment, seeds, rent for their lodgings. Sometimes they would start out the year already in debt.

  • New South Movement/Beginning of Industrialization

    The South first starts to consider industry instead of agriculture as an economic enterprise. Henry W. Grady is the editor of the AJC and advocates the movement into the industrialization of the south. He says, "Bring the mills to the cotton."