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AHSGE Review
Alabama History
European Exploration
Hernando De Soto –first European in Alabama
Spanish explorer
Died and was buried in Mississippi River
Massacre at Fort Mims
“Red Stick” Creeks attacked settlers
Part of War of 1812
Settlers all killed
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Andrew Jackson and the Tennessee Volunteer Militia against the “Red Stick” Creeks
Broke the power of the Creeks in Alabama
Statehood
1819 Alabama became a state
Trail of Tears
Removal of Cherokees from the Southeast to Oklahoma
Alabama Cherokee removed
Moved during winter, many died
Civil War
Montgomery – first capital of the Confederacy (moved to Richmond)
Free State of Winston – Winston County withdrew from the Confederacy and supported the Union
Talladega College
Started the American Missionary Association and Freedmen’s Bureau –trained African-American teachers
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington – college president –Atlanta Compromise speech (not opposed to segregation)
George Washington Carver – professor who is famous for agricultural research using peanuts
W. C. Handy
Native of Florence
Known as the “Father of the Blues”
Also associated with jazz
Panama Canal
William Gorgas – doctor from Alabama who decided the mosquitoes caused malaria and yellow fever which kept the canal builders sick
Zelda Fitzgerald
Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Model for 1920’s flapper
Writer and later painter
Montgomery native
Boll Weevils
Destroyed cotton crops across the South
Forced farmers to diversify
Statue in Enterprise, Alabama
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Part of “Alphabet Soup” or New Deal FDR’s plan for recovery during the Depression
Cheap hydroelectric power from dams on rivers
Tuskegee Airmen
African-American pilots during WWII
Trained in Tuskegee
German POW Camps
German Prisoner of War camps located in Alabama –Aliceville, Opelika, Anniston, and Camp Rucker
Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks – Montgomery Bus Boycott
Birmingham – Children’s March
Selma – march with MLK
Birmingham Church Bombing
Helen Keller
Born in Tuscumbia
Blind and deaf
Mute for a number of years
Inspirational speaker
Play The Miracle Worker
Harper Lee
Alabama author from Monroeville
Wrote To Kill A Mockingbird – novel about racism in the South