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  1. The Spread of Prohibition
    date January 2, 1891 to October 5, 1897map MONTGOMERY, Marylandtags Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Government, Women

    The Anti-Saloon League began with a modest following in 1893 to becoming a major political force in lobbying for a Constitutional amendment. Their goal, under the guidance of their president, Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, was to unify the anti-alcohol sentiment already brewing in society and to enact further legislation to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol. Grounded in moral and religious ideals,...

  2. Yankees
    date December, 1827 to June 6, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    In the Antebellum South, before railroads were widely used, Southern societies did not encounter people from other places very often. An anonymous man wrote a letter to the editor of The Argus in the summer of 1828, and in his etter he clearly demonstrated his inherent mistrust of outsiders. This man owned a boarding house and was writing to the paper in search of a solution to a problem he had run...

  3. Longshoreman Strike
    date August 31, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy

    Black members of the International Longshoremen's Association quit work until their demand that the United States Shipping Company at Newport News fired all non-union white men. On August 31, 1899, the unofficial strike of the black men disrupted the handling and loading of ships in the Warwick County port. However, within one day, the shipping company had obtained nearly one hundred white men to fill...

  4. Jane
    date July 14, 1828 to September 9, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    P. Wiltberger, while sitting at breakfast one morning, was interrupted by his overseer. The overseer angrily informed Wiltberger that Jane, one of Wiltberger's slaves, was missing. Other slaves were being questioned but so far, the overseer could find out nothing. Incensed, Wiltberger questioned his slaves further, but to no avail. He then picked up his pen and proceeded to write an advertisement to...

  5. Systematic Volunteer Work and Grassroots Efforts in Fairhope
    date January, 1897 to 1897map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Government

    The desire to awaken the noble impulses of humanity and to reform society along socioeconomic lines was something that the founders of Fairhope had as specific goals, outlined by the single tax principle. Just like other progressive movements at the time in the South though, the ideals blueprinted by the intellectuals could not be . In January of 1897 nearly all the members of the Fairhope community...

  6. Convict Standoff
    date July 13, 1886 to July 14, 1886map DADE, Georgiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Law, Race-Relations

    It was already hot. As the Superintendent lined the convicts up to march back to the Dade County coal mines for another day of exhausting labor, one group refused to move. At the head of a long line of men chained together, the leader of the rebellion spoke up to Colonel Tower. He said that he and all the rest of the men from his stockade refused to work another day in the heat at their awful work....

  7. Cotton Growers Unite Over Deflation
    date September 27, 1898 to September 28, 1898map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics

    In The State, a special address was made from a committee of the Cotton Growers' union of South Carolina to the cotton growers of the state. Immediately, the committee addresses exceedingly low prices of cotton of the time period and the further deflation to come. With prices...lower than they have ever been previously at the time, foreign speculators were holding off purchases to wait for cheaper...

  8. Railroads; the new form of transportation in the South
    date July 23, 1891 to September 1, 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Newspapers, like the Portsmouth Star were filled with railroad advertisements displaying the price and rates for which a passenger could travel from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and even New York with no more than a day of travel for even the farther distances. A company called the Bay Line and Pennsylvania railroad offered to take people in Norfolk to the Niagara Falls for...

  9. Mobile Child Labor Reform Laws in 1897
    date 1897map MOBILE, Alabamatags Health/Death, Economy, Law, Politics

    The movement to reform child labor laws identified a new difficulty in the late part of the 1890's. In the year of 1897 citizens of Mobile and their representative Thomas H. Smith presented a series of bills to the Alabama Senate regarding child labor reform. These bills were purported to have come from the Mobile Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. All were shot down in committees....

  10. Brothers embark on mill buying adventure
    date November 20, 1890 to September 11, 1891map LOUISA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Brothers James Bibb and W.E. Bibb decided to invest in building a cotton mill. James was a real estate developer and W.E. Bibb was a lawyer. They corresponded by mail over several months trying to get other investors involved and talked about financial matters. James was the person who was mostly in charge of this deal although he always was asking his brother for advice and of course for more...

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