WorksheetsChapter 6 Alabama History Review Game
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who built Cedar Creek Furnace, the state's blast furnace?
Andrew Dexter
Joseph Heslip
Andrew Jackson
William Rufus King
How did Goat Hill become the site of the capitol building in Montgomery?
Andrew Jackson wanted a capitol built there.
William Rufus King owned the land and gave it to the state.
Andrew Dexter owned the land and wanted the capitol to be built on it.
Religion was practiced in early Alabama.
True
False
During the early years of Alabama's statehood, mailed was delivered by what?
keelboats
stagecoach
flatboats
horseback
river boats
Alabama became the 22nd state to join the Union on what date?
December 14, 1819
December 13, 1818
December 14, 1818
December 20, 1819
The state capitol at Cahaba was flooded when the Cahaba River and Alabama River overflowed in 1825.
True
False
Who was the only vice-president of the United States from Alabama. He served only one month before he died or tuberculosis.
William Wyatt Bibb
Andrew Dexter
Horace King
William Rufus King
Pick the two methods of water travel used in the young Alabama territory.
River boats
keelboats
canoes
flatboats
The Indians left their homes willingly.
True
False
In 1830 after each Indian tribe signed a treaty, where were the tribes sent?
East coast
west to Indian territory
north territory
south reservation
Why did some children only attend school for part of the year in the mid-1880s?
They were needed at home to work on the family farms.
They only had school for part of the year.
They didn't have enough clothes.
They didn't have a way to get to school.
In 1818, what did the population of a state have to be to become a territory?
100,000
40,000
60,000
120,000
Pick out the 5 cities that have been capitals of Alabama.
Selma, Huntsville, Montgomery, Cahaba, and St. Stephens
Huntsville, Montgomery, Cahaba, Mobile, and Tuscaloosa
Mobile, Cahaba, Tuscaloosa, St. Stephens, and Montgomery
Montgomery, St. Stephens, Tuscaloosa, Cahaba, and Huntsville
Who signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830?
William Rufus King
Horace King
William Wyatt Bibb
Andrew Jackson
What did a territory need to have before it could become a state?
constitution
amendments
declaration
religion
How many men were are the first meeting of the Alabama Territory's legislature and when was it? (Pick two answers)
14 men
13 men
January 19, 1818
January 19, 1819
Stagecoach travel was a comfortable form of transportation in the 1800s.
True
False
When Alabama Territory came into being on Dec. 10, 1817, Pres. James Monroe chose ___________ of Georgia as governor of the new territory.
William Rufus King
Andrew Dexter
William Wyatt Bibb
Andrew Jackson
President Andrew Jackson allowed the Indians to stay in their homes.
True
False
Why was the removal of the Indians from their homes called the "Trail of Tears"?
They were following their ancestors.
There was much suffering and death on the forced journey to the new Indian Territory.
The Indians left markers along the way.
