Chapter 6 Test Practice

Over the years, Alabama has had its capital in these five cities:

• Birmingham, Huntsville, Dothan, Cullman, and Mobile

• St. Stephens, Huntsville, Cahaba, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery

• Montgomery, Huntsville, St. Stephens, Tuscaloosa, Winfield

• Huntsville, Washington, Montgomery, Mobile, and Lawrence

When the Alabama Territory came into being in December 1817, President James Monroe chose _________________ of Georgia as governor of the new territory.

• Abe Lincoln

• George Washington

• William Wyatt Bibb

• Eli Whitney

The only vice-president of the United States from Alabama was ____________________.

• William Rufus King

• Ben Franklin

• Kay Ivey

• George Wallace

What president signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

• George Washington

• Abe Lincoln

• George Bush

• Andrew Jackson

Two methods of water travel in the young Alabama territory were _________ and ___________.

• rowboat and sailboat

• motorboat and jet ski

• flatboats and keelboats

• canoe and raft

The first meeting of the Alabama Territory's legislature was made of __________ men and held _______________.

• 3 men and March 1819

• 13 men and January 19, 1818.

• 5 men and January 1, 1819

• 10 men and January 20, 1817

In 1818, in order for a territory to become a state, its population must be _______________ people.

• 600,000

• 6,000

• 60,000

• no limit of people

Before a territory could become a state it needed to have a

• state constitution

• vote by the people

• capital city

• good work ethic

_______________ built Cedar Creek Furnace, the state's first blast furnace.

• Eli Whitney

• Orville Wright

• Ben Franklin

• Joseph Heslip

In 1830 after each Indian tribe signed a treaty, the tribes were sent __________________.

• south of Tennessee

• to Florida

• to Washington DC

• west to Indian Territory