Alabama History- Chapter 5



Alabama History- Chapter 5

1. The enabling act of 1819 required the people of Alabama to hold a constitutional convention.’

2. People settled in the black belt of Alabama because cotton grew well there.

3. Alabama had to survey the land, write a constitution, and send a petition to Congress before they became a state.

4. Settlers chose Alabama because of the warm climate, rich soil, and long growing season.

5. After the Creek War, settlers moved to land that is now Alabama because this land had not been open to them before.

6. Alabama’s state government first met in Huntsville because the statehouse in Cahaba was not ready yet.

7. Put the following events in order: Alabama voters elected a governor ____; President Monroe signed an enabling act____; The Mississippi Territory was divided____; A state constitution was adopted____. (Be sure that you know which happened FIRST)

8. Thomas Bibb replaced William Wyatt Bibb as governor.

9. The invention of the cotton gin increased cotton production in the south.

10. Enslaved people did not have the same rights as people who were free.

11. Unlike small farms, most cotton plantations depended on slavery.

12. In the 1800s communities in Alabama developed around areas that grew cotton.

13. The 1852 Alabama Code described enslaved people as property and outlined their limited rights.

14. Alabama’s rivers were important to its growing economy because steamboats transported crops, goods, and people.

15. Plantations were set up near rivers so that they could easily transport crops to market.

16. Yeoman farmers were small farmers who worked their own plots of land.

17. Cotton was the MOST important natural resource to Alabama’s plantation owners in the early 1800s.

18. Everyone in a family helped with the work is a true statement about settler life.

19. The Trail of Tears was the forced westward journey of the Cherokee.

20. All Native Americans east of the Mississippi River moved west between 1830 and 1835 because the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and treaties forced them to move.

DISCUSSION:

(Sequence of Events)

List the following events in order in which they occurred: the constitutional convention adopts the state constitution____; a petition for statehood is sent to Congress____; Montgomery becomes the state capital____; Alabama becomes a state____; Congress passes an enabling act____; Voters elect the state's first governor____.

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