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Foundation of Jamestown
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First group of Africans arrive in the US
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Plymoth Colony
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Formed to acquire religious freedom -
Indentured Servants live out their contracts
Conditions were very problematic
Diseases carried readily; very few survived the original 7 year contract. -
Middleton Plantation
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Civil War Begins
The firing on Fort Sumpter -
Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
Laborers who contract with the owner of a piece of land in which they farm it for a share of the the proceeds from the crop $. There were extra expenses like equiptment, seeding etc. At times, they start the new harvest season in debt
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Beginning of Industrialization
The south starts to consider industry (manufacturinig) as an alternate economic enterprise to agriculture. Henry Grady influenced through the Atlantic Journal/Newspaper---"Bring the mills to the cotton" (Knocks out extra expenses)
Most famous spokesperson that encouraged industrialization