Southern Culture

By acantrell32

  • Foundation of Jamestown

  • First Africans come to the New World

  • Foundation of Plymouth

  • Foundation of MA Bay Colony

  • Indentured Servants start to live out their contracts

  • Civil War Begins

    The firing on Fort Sumter

  • Civil War Ends

  • Period: to

    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."