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Foundation of Jametown
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First African Americans come to NA
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Foundation of Plymouth colony, now MA
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MA Bay Colony
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Indentured servants lbegin to ive out their contracts
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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 themsevlves. They are laborors (tenant farmers) who contract with the owner of a piece of land and farm it for a share of the proceeds. Have to pay for equipment, seeds, rents for their lodgings. Sometimes they would start out the year already in debt. -
Beginning of industrialization
The South first starts to consider industry (manufacturing) instead of agriculture as an economic enterprise. Henry W. Grady is the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and advocates the movement into the industrialization of the South. He says, "Bring the mills to the cotton."