AL Studies Week 10

According to Alabama's Bill of Rights, where does the state get its governing power from?

• the president of the United States

• the will of the people

• the number of people in its political party

• the military

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

• They were cousins.

• They all died young.

• They were all born somewhere other than Alabama.

• They all had Alabama counties named after them.

If the state supreme court thinks a law is unconstitutional, it can __________.

• give suggestions for revising the law

• change the constitution

• pass the law to the federal Supreme Court

• reject the law

Why does Alabama have multiple branches of government?

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

• so that elected officials can have jobs after their term is over

• to cover multiple areas of the state

• so that there are enough people to do all the work of running a state

Alabama was the __________ state to join the Union.

• 14th

• 22nd

• 30th

• 31st

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

• The discovery of penicillin helped people live longer.

• Advances in agriculture made it easier to feed people.

• The government started paying people to move to Alabama.

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

True or False: The executive branch interprets the laws.

• True

• False

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

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

• Tuscaloosa’s local taxes had become too high.

• The federal government had offered free land in Montgomery on which to build the state capitol.

• Tuscaloosa flooded too often, and state buildings were getting damaged.

What does cotton do to the soil it grows in?

• depletes it 

• enriches it

• poisons it

• sterilizes it

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

• promoting the limestone mining industry

• creating a state bank

• building roads to connect Alabama’s biggest cities

• rewriting Alabama’s constitution