19th Century Alabama Study Guide

Someone who makes a good or provides a service

• demand

• supply

• producer

• consumer

A person who buys goods and services

• supply

• demand

• producer

• consumer

The amount of product that is available

• trade

• demand

• surplus

• supply

The amount of product people actually want or need

• demand

• consumer

• supply

• surplus

Is not having enough of something

• surplus

• scarcity

• trade

• producer

Who were indentured servants?

• top executives working for a company or government

• Immigrants working to repay their passage to America.

• leaders of a business

Some of Alabama's first schools were established by?

• the mayor

• farmers

• teachers

• preachers

Which Europeans first settled around the Mobile River?

• French

• Indian

• Romans

• Germans

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

• factories near urban centers

• They moved for farming life

• disease

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

How did children help build cabins?

• They made the logs

• They had to cut down trees

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