Southern Culture

By Lauren.Owens

  • Foundation of Jamestown

  • West African Slaves Arrive

  • Foundation of Plymouth Colony

    Religious Freedom

  • Foundation of Massachusetts Bay

    Religious freedom

  • Indentured Servants Lived Out Contracts

    Diseases spread and work was hard
    Before this point they usually died

  • Civil War Begins

    Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Civil War Ends

  • Period: to

    Sharecropping

    Laborers contract with landowner to farm it in exchange for a share of the crop
    Often began in debt owing for supplies, rent, etc.

  • Beginning of Industrialization

    Textile mills, the south starts to rely more on industry over agriculture for its economy
    Henry Grady: "Bring the Mills to the Cotton"