Native Americans & Removal
This was the forced march of Native Americans westward from Alabama to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Alabama became a state in this year.
What is 1819?
Alabama seceded from the Union in this year.
What is 1861?
This general led the American forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Who is General Andrew Jackson?
This crop became the dominant source of wealth in Alabama before the Civil War.
What is cotton?
The Indian Removal Act was passed in this year.
What is 1830?
This city was Alabama's first capital from 1819 to 1820.
What is Huntsville?
The election of this president in 1860 led Alabama to secede from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend took place on this date.
What is March 27, 1814?
A large farm that grows cash crops like cotton is called this.
What is a plantation?
The Creek Nation was forced to give up this many acres of land in the Treaty of Fort Jackson.
What is 23 million acres?
Alabama's second capital served from 1820 to 1836.
What is Cahaba?
Alabama was readmitted to the Union during Reconstruction in this year.
What is 1868?
This powerful Native American nation had lived in Alabama for centuries before the Creek War.
What is the Creek Nation?
This is why Alabama's economy depended so heavily on slavery before the Civil War.
What is because cotton plantations required many workers to grow and harvest cotton?
This group of Creeks resisted American expansion and influence during the Creek War.
Who are the Red Sticks?
This organized territory, established in 1798, included the area that would become Alabama.
What is the Mississippi Territory?
These economic and social factors led Alabama to secede from the Union.
What is fear that the North would end slavery and destroy Alabama's economy?
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend changed Alabama's future in this way.
What is it ended the Creek War and led to the Creek Nation being forced to cede millions of acres, opening the land for American settlement?
Alabama contributed to the Confederate war effort during the Civil War in these three ways.
What is provided soldiers, produced weapons and ammunition through its iron industry, and provided resources and supplies?
Most Native Americans were forced from Alabama between these two years.
What is 1831 and 1850?
This is the reason Alabama's capital moved three times in its first 17 years as a state.
What is because the population was shifting southward as settlers moved for fertile land?
Montgomery was chosen as the first capital of the Confederacy for these reasons.
What is because it was already Alabama's capital, was a major commercial and political center, and had good access to the Alabama River for trade?
The Battle of Mobile Bay occurred in this year.
What is 1864?
Formerly enslaved people gained these rights after the Civil War during Reconstruction.
What is citizenship and voting rights?