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Foundation of Jamestown
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First Africans come to the New World
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Foundation of Plymouth
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Foundation of MA Bay Colony
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Indentured Servants start to live out their contracts
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Civil War Begins
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Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
Laborers who contract with the owner of a piece of land and farm it and share the proceeds. -
Beginning of Industrualization
People start to think that industry might be better than farming. Henry W. Grady- Editor of Atlanta Journal Constitution advocates the movement into industrualization. "The South needs to bring the mills to the cotton."