Week 12 Alabama Studies

Why did so many people move to Alabama in the early 1800s?

• The economy in the eastern states wasn’t doing well.

• The price of livestock had gone way up.

• They wanted to move to a big city.

• They were running from crimes they had committed.

Who were indentured servants?

• servants with wooden teeth

• immigrants working to repay their passage to America

• young people learning a trade

• servants who lived inside the main house

How did children help to build cabins?

• They rubbed oil on the saws while the men cut down the trees.

• They dug the cabin’s cellar.

• They provided entertainment after the work was done.

• They mixed mud, sticks, and rocks to fill the spaces between the logs.

True or False:  Alabama was originally part of the Mississippi Territory.

• True

• False

Some of Alabama’s first schools were established by:

• police officers

• politicians

• pottery makers

• preachers

Which Europeans first settled around the Mobile River?

• English

• Spanish

• Danish

• French

Why was the kitchen often located away from the main house on a plantation?

• so that the food had time to cool while it was brought to the house

• so that the main house could be kept cooler

• so that the kitchen could be guarded from wild animals

• so that the smells of cooking would not distract people from their work

What did schoolchildren use for ink in early Alabama?

• charcoal sticks

• cinnamon powder soaked in water overnight

• squid ink from Mobile Bay

• fluids from animals

According to the article, which was NOT a danger of transporting cargo on a steamboat?

• steamboat racing

• boiler explosion

• American Indian attack

• river pirates

Why did farmers ignore the Black Belt to begin with?

• It was too far away

• It was too mountainous.

• The soil was too difficult to plow.

• Investors had already bought it.