History of Southern US Timeline

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Contents

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• 1 Native American civilizations
• 2 European colonization
  • 2.1 Spanish exploration
  • 2.2 French colonization
• 3 British colonial era (1607-1775)
  • 3.1 Rise of tobacco culture and slavery in the colonial South
  • 3.2 Growth of the Southern colonies
• 4 Antebellum Era (1781–1860)
  • 4.1 Antebellum slavery
  • 4.2 Nullification crisis, political representation, and rising sectionalism
  • 4.3 Sectional parity and issue of slavery in new territories
  • 4.4 Election of 1860, secession, and Lincoln's response
• 5 Civil War (1860-1865)
  • 5.1 Leadership
  • 5.2 Abolition of slavery
  • 5.3 Railroads
  • 5.4 Sherman's March
• 6 Reconstruction (1863-1877)
  • 6.1 Material ruin and human losses
  • 6.2 Political Reconstruction, 1863-1877
  • 6.3 Railroads
  • 6.4 Backlash to Reconstruction
• 7 Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
  • 7.1 Race: From Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement
• 8 Rural South
• 9 Creating the "New South" (1945–present)