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Jefferson who spent much of his childhood at Tuckahoe Plantation was a great-grandson of William Randolph, a colonist and land owner who arrived in Virginia from England in the mid-17th century. Randolph played an important role in the history and government of the English colony of Virginia.
Until the second half of the 20th century, the Old Stock dominated American culture and Republican party politics. [19] [20] Of the 15 leading American cities, 7 elected a Catholic as mayor before the Civil War, and 13 had done so by 1893. The last two were Edward Dempsey in Cincinnati in 1906, and James Tate in Philadelphia in 1962. [21] [22]
The Spanish colonized Florida in the 16th century, with their communities reaching a peak in the late 17th century. In the British and French colonies, most colonists arrived after 1700. They cleared land, built houses and outbuildings, and worked on the large plantations that dominated export agriculture. Many were involved in the labor ...
In the early 17th century, English sailors had begun cutting logwood in parts of coastal Central America over which the Spanish exercised little control. By the early 18th century, a small British settlement had been established on the Belize River , though the Spanish refused to recognize British control over the region and frequently evicted ...
The range cattle industry (1930) online edition; Danbom, David B. Sod Busting: How families made farms on the 19th-century Plains (2014) Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier: 1865–1900 (1966), the west; Fite, Gilbert C. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865–1980 (1984) Freeman, John F. and Mark E. Uchanski.
In the early eighteenth century the cattle trade expand from around 30,000 head a year in 1700, to perhaps 80,000 by the middle of the century. [7] Coal mining also continued to expand, rising from around 225,000 tons a year in the late seventeenth century to at least 700,000 tons by 1750. [ 15 ]
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ... Pages in category "Trading companies established in the 17th century" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The early-to-mid 20th century also saw many factories and service industries opening in towns throughout the region for employment, which served as new job occupations. [215] During the 20th century, millions of non-Southern U.S. migrants and retirees have moved down for job opportunities and mild winters.