ASW Week 10

Alabama was the ____________ state to join the Union.

• 14th

• 22nd

• 30th

• 31st

Why does Alabama have multiple branches of government?

• to keep one person or group from getting too much power

• to cover multiple areas of the state

• so the elected officials can have jobs after their term

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

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.

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

• The government started paying people to move to Alabama.

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

• They were cousins

• They were all born somewhere other than Alabama

• They all died young

• They all had counties named after them

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 project did the second and third Alabama governors work on?

• promoting the limestone mining industry

• building roads to connect Alabama’s biggest cities

• creating a state bank

• rewriting Alabama's state constitution

According to the bill of rights, where does the state get its governing power from?

• The governor

• The president

• The people

• The supreme court

How many branches of government does Alabama have?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What was “Alabama Fever”?

• A dance craze in 1814

• A description of how hot Alabama was

• A disease discovered in Alabama

• Everyone wanted to buy land in Alabama

According to the Northwest Ordinance, how many men did it take to turn a territory into a state?

• 5,000

• 6,000

• 50,000

• 127,000