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