HISTORY OF

1
HISTORY OF ALABAMA AGRICULTURESlide 1 Major
Periods
EVENTS TIME PERIOD
Pre-European Phase 2,500 BC Mid-1500s
Europeanization Mid-1500s - 1783
Americanization 1783 - 1819
Evolution of Alabama Agriculture (for details, see slides 2A 2B) 1819 - Present
2
Evolution of Alabama AgricultureSlide 2A
Through the Civil War and Beyond

• Formative Period
• Coming of the Cotton Kingdom
• Calamity The War Years
• Aftermath of the War
• Picking up Bones

• 1819 1835
• 1835 1862
• 1862 1865
• 1865 1880

3
Evolution of Alabama AgricultureSlide 2B To
Modernization and Government Dependency

• Seriously Seeking Salvation
• Mileposts on the Road to Disaster
• Recession to Depression
• Temporary Salvation in the Tents of the War Gods
• Modernization of Agriculture in Alabama and the
  South
• It was the Best of Times It was the Worst of
  Times
• Sharecropping with the Guvmint

• 1880 -1900
• 1900 1930
• 1930 1940
• 1940 1950
• 1950 1970
• 1970 1985
• 1985 - Now