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Foundation of Jamestown, VA
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First African Americans Come to NA
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Foundation of Plymouth Colony
Formed to aquire religious freedom -
Foundation of Massachussets Bay Colony
Formed to aquire religious freedom -
Indentured Servants Live Out Their Contracts
Conditions were so hard and problematic, diseases prominent, very few were able to survive the 7 years; Recruitment to the colonies sufferered -
Middleton Place
SC Plantation -
Stagville--Main House is Built
NC Plantation, 30,000 acres -
Civil War Begins
Firing on Fort Sumtner -
Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping: sharecroppers do not own the land; laborers who contract with the owner of a piece of land and farm it for a share of the proceeds (crops) Tenant has to pay for the equipment, seed, fertilizer, rent. Typically would start out the year in debt. Tenants had no other choice. -
Beginning of Industrialization
"New South Movement"
South Considers Industry vs. Agriculture
Henry W. Grady: editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and advocates the movement into the industrialization of the South.
"Bring the Mills to the Cotton" -
Farming as an Occupation Hits its Numerical Peak
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Great Depression
Devestated the agricultural regions of the country (many people lost their land and their homes) -
Cotton Picking Machines
eliminated the need for "croppers" and laborers