SW WK10

Alabama was the _____ state to join the Union.

• 14th

• 22nd

• 30th

Why does Alabama have multiple branches of government?

• to keep one person or group of people from gaining too much power

• to spread out all of the responsibilities

• the president said they had to

What made Alabama's population grow so quickly between 1810 and 1820?

• The discovery of penicillin made people live longer

• People wanted a piece of the land recently taken from the American Indians

• The government paid people to move to Alabama

True or False: The executive branch interprets the laws.

• True

• False

What did John Williams Walker, William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas Bibb, Israel Pickens, and William Rufus King have in common?

• They were cousins

• They were not born in Alabama

• They were all president

If the state supreme court thinks a law is unconstitiutional, it can ______

• reject the law

• change the constitution

• give suggestions

Why was Alabama's state capital moved from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery?

• The population had shifted east and wanted better access to the capital

• They outgrew the old one

• It burned down

What project did the second and third Alabama governors work on?

• rewriting the constitution

• nothing, they did not like each other

• creating a state bank