ALABAMA

Johan Egarnes

Year 10 European Class

DIXIE

• This is an old nickname that represents southern eastern territories of the Confederate States of America*

Alabama

*Etat confedere d’amerique= Se sont tous les Etats du sud qui sont devenus independants du reste de l’Amérique

Plantation

• The French brought the first slaves to the region to work on cotton and tobacco plantations.

Cotton field

Tobacco fields

Appalachians

• Appalachian Mountain is a chain of mountains which separates the Atlantic cost and the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes of America

Appalaches

The Civil War (1861-1865)

• This is a war between the Confederate States of America and the states in the north

• The winner was the north• slavery was abandoned

in 1865• A temporary government

was in power after the war

Dixie’s flagUpward social mobility (ascension sociale)=montant d’un grade d’une personne ex:(infirmiere montant au grade de docteur)

Economical development

• The state of Alabama and a lot of the states in the Dixie were poor but Alabama became richer during the WORLD WAR IIbecause they made weapons for the war

Alabama today

Yellowhammer state (Etat du Pic flamboyant)

Montgomery Birmingham