Move to Alabama
Name the three roads used to travel to Alabama.
The Federal Road
The Natchez Trace
The Huntsville Road
Most pioneers lived in what?
log cabins
What did students use for desk?
Split logs for benches and rough boards hung from wall foor desk.
What type of ship brought the first slaves to Alabama?
Dutch
What road followed the Alabama River?
The Federal Road
What are two good reasons to move to Southern Alabama?
Land near rivers was good for growing crops like corn and cotton.
Large Pine Forest
Climate good for long growing season.
What was two uses for the fireplace in a log cabin?
Heating and cooking
How many teachers were at a school?
one
How many Alabamians owned slaves?
one-third
What were people called who moved to Alabama before the government had time to survey and divide the lands to sell?
Squuatters
Where did the people moving into Alabama mainly come from?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Why were most log cabins built by streams or springs?
have water available for the families
Where was the school located?
in a log cabin
What was the price of slaves based on?
What a slave could do.
What were people called that bought up cheap land and sold it for a profit?
Speculators
How did poor people move to Alabama?
Pulling their own carts
What is a plantation?
large tracts of land owned by one person or a family
Could slaves go to school?
no
How much could a young, healthy slave sell for?
$2,000.00
What does Demopolis mean?
City of the People
How did the wealthy people move into Alabama?
covered wagons
How did plantation owners get oil paintings of their family?
an artist would come stay at the plantation while he painted the paintings
How did students get water when they needed it?
All students used the same ladle to drink from a wooden water bucket
Where did slaves sit when they went to a white church?
at the back or in the balcony
What were people called who farmed their land without slaves?
Yeoman