4th Grade Alabama History Week 16

Birmingham was called the ___________ ___________ because the population and industry grew very quickly in a short period of time.

(a)  

The port of (a)   was enlarged to allow ocean-going ships to enter it.

After the Civil War, many ____________ ___________ were set up in southern Alabama to make use of fast growing pines that grew there.

(a)  

Alabama established ___________ ___________ laws that kept African Americans from using the same facilities as white people.

(a)  

Chemists found a way to make cotton seeds into which of these products?

• fertilizer

• coal

• soap

What changes took place that made the cotton industry into a more profitable business?

• more cotton mills, cotton mills that were destroyed during the war were rebuilt and faster steamboats and railroads were built

• more people planted cotton, they paid higher wages and railroads were built

• trucking business opened up, more cotton planted and there was a higher demand for it

Which of these grew after Reconstruction?

• cotton farms, technology, and textile mills

• space products, technology and steel mills

• lumber mills, cotton mills and iron factories

When the Alabama Constitution was rewritten, which of these things were included?

• restriction on wages paid to slaves

• no more public schools were allowed to be built

• state officials were to be elected instead of appointed and taxes were lowered for poor people

Which towns became "boom towns" because of their proximity, or closeness, to Birmingham?

• Huntsville and Birmingham

• Montgomery and Selma

• Bessemer and Gadsden

Growing cotton was the main industry in Alabama before the Civil War.

• True

• False