A person who settles on land without any right to do so.
What is a squatter?
100
Alabama sends a petition to Congress to admit Alabama to the Union as a state.
What is the first step to statehood?
100
The capital in 1846 and CURRENT capital today.
What is Montgomery?
100
Most people settled in the __________ or the _______________ in Alabama.
What are the river valleys or Tennessee Valley?
100
The main crop grown in Alabama was ________________.
What is Cotton?
200
A machine that separates the cotton from its seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
200
President Monroe signed the Enabling Act in March 1819.
What is the third step in statehood?
200
The FIRST STATE capital of Alabama from 1820-1826.
What is Cahaba?
200
The _____________________________ forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move west to "Indian Territory."
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
200
The three branches of government are the ___________, _____________, and _______________.
What are judicial, executive, and legislative?
300
A plan of government.
What is a constitution?
300
Congress approved the request by passing an enabliing act.
What is the second step in statehood?
300
The SECOND STATE capital of Alabama 1826-1846 (in this place for 20 years).
What is Tuscaloosa?
300
The forced movement of the Cherokee was known as the __________________.
What is the "Trail of Tears"?
300
Farmers who farmed small plots of land were called_______________.
Who are Yeoman farmers?
400
A food product that is used and needed all the time.
What is a staple?
400
The enabling act required the people of Alabama to hold a constitutional convention to write a constitution for the new state. The enabling act also required that the people survey Alabama's land and draw boundary lines between Alabama and Mississippi.
What is the fourth step to statehood?
400
The first capital in the Alabama TERRITORY 1817-1819.
What is St. Stephens?
400
Settlers moved to Alabama because of its __________, ________________, and _________________.
What is warm climate, rich soil, and long growing season?
400
Alabama became known as the "_____________" because of the main crop that was grown there.
What is "Cotton Kiingdom"?
500
A system for managing, producing, and delivering goods and services.
What is an economy?
500
President Monroe signed the papers making Alabama the twenty-second state in the United States.
What is the fifth step to statehood?
500
The second Territorial capital where the state government met while the capital in Cahaba was being built. (1819-1820)
What is Huntsville?
500
The first governor of Alabama was________________.
Who is William Wyatt Bibb?
500
The MAIN forms of transportation in the 1800s were _______________, ___________________, and ______________________.
What are steamboats, Railroads/trains and stagecoaches?