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Foundation of Jamestown
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First African Americans come to the country
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Foundation of Plymoth Colony, now MA
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MA Bay Colony
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Indentured servants live out their contracts
Conditions were very hard and diseases spread so readily. Hardly anyone was living out 7 yrs. -
Middleton Place
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Stagville--Main house is built
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Civil War Begins
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Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping- sharecroppers do not own the land themselves. They are laborers who contract with the owner of a piece of land and farm it for a share of the proceeds. Had to pay for equiptment, rent, etc. If they weren't caught up on this they would start out the year in debt. -
Beginning of industrialization
The South first starts to consider industry (manufacturing)instead of agriculture as an econmic enterprise. Henry W. Grady is the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Consititution and advocates the movement into the Industrailization of the South. He says, "Bring the mills to cotton."