Alabama

Map skills

• 1 Compare historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps, including weather and climate, physical-relief, waterway, transportation, political, economic development, land-use, and population maps.

  • New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
  • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
  • The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (4-B.7)
  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-C.7)
  • The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)
  • World War II: global events (4-E.9)

  • Describing types of migrations as they affect the environment, agriculture, economic development, and population changes in Alabama

Exploration and settlement

• 2 Relate reasons for European exploration and settlement in Alabama to the impact of European explorers on trade, health, and land expansion in Alabama.

  • New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
  • New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
  • Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
  • Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
  • Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
  • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)

  • Locating on maps European settlements in early Alabama, including Fort Condé, Fort Toulouse, and Fort Mims

  • Tracing on maps and globes, the routes of early explorers of the New World, including Juan Ponce de León, Hernando de Soto, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa

  • Explaining reasons for conflicts between Europeans and American Indians in Alabama from 1519 to 1840, including differing beliefs regarding land ownership, religion, and culture

• 3 Explain the social, political, and economic impact of the War of 1812, including battles and significant leaders of the Creek War, on Alabama.

  • The War of 1812: causes (4-C.3)
  • The War of 1812: events and effects (4-C.4)

  • Explaining the impact of the Trail of Tears on Alabama American Indians' lives, rights, and territories

• 4 Relate the relationship of the five geographic regions of Alabama to the movement of Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth century.

  • Identifying natural resources of Alabama during the early nineteenth century

  • Describing human environments of Alabama as they relate to settlement during the early nineteenth century, including housing, roads, and place names

Early statehood

• Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.

The Civil War through the late 19th century

• 7 Explain reasons for Alabama's secession from the Union, including sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, and economic disagreements.

  • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-C.7)
  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (4-C.8)

  • Identifying Alabama's role in the organization of the Confederacy, including hosting the secession convention and the inauguration ceremony for leaders

  • Recognizing Montgomery as the first capital of the Confederacy

  • Interpreting the Articles of the Confederation and the Gettysburg Address

    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (4-D.2)

• 8 Explain Alabama's economic and military role during the Civil War.

  • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (4-D.1)
  • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (4-D.2)
  • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (4-D.3)
  • The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)

  • Recognizing military leaders from Alabama during the Civil War

  • Comparing roles of women on the home front and the battlefront during and after the Civil War

  • Explaining economic conditions as a result of the Civil War, including the collapse of the economic structure, destruction of the transportation infrastructure, and high casualty rates

    • The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)

• 9 Analyze political and economic issues facing Alabama during Reconstruction for their impact on various social groups.

  • Interpreting the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

    • The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)
    • Reconstruction (4-D.5)

  • Identifying African Americans who had an impact on Alabama during Reconstruction in Alabama

    • Reconstruction (4-D.5)

  • Identifying major political parties in Alabama during Reconstruction

    • Reconstruction (4-D.5)

• 10 Analyze social and educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama.

  • Explaining the development and changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of Populism

  • Explaining the Jim Crow laws

    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)

  • Identifying Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

World War I through World War II

• 11 Describe the impact of World War I on Alabamians, including the migration of African Americans from Alabama to the North and West, utilization of Alabama's military installations and training facilities, and increased production of goods for the war effort.

  • World War I: the road to war (4-E.1)
  • World War I: the war begins (4-E.2)
  • World War I: events of the war (4-E.3)
  • World War I: the road to peace (4-E.4)

  • Recognizing Alabama participants in World War I, including Alabama's 167th Regiment of the Rainbow Division

  • Identifying World War I technologies, including airplanes, machine guns, and chemical warfare

    • World War I: events of the war (4-E.3)

• 12 Explain the impact the 1920s and Great Depression had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama.

  • Explaining how supply and demand impacted economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression

    • The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
    • The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)

• 13 Describe the economic and social impact of World War II on Alabamians, including entry of women into the workforce, increase in job opportunities, rationing, utilization of Alabama's military installations, military recruitment, the draft, and a rise in racial consciousness.

  • World War II: lead-up to war in Europe, Asia (4-E.8)
  • World War II: global events (4-E.9)

  • Recognizing Alabama participants in World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and women in the military

  • Justifying the strategic placement of military bases in Alabama, including Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan, and Craig Air Force Base

The Civil Rights Movement to the present

• 14 Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact on Alabama.

  • Recognizing important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy

    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

  • Describing events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March

    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

  • Explaining benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954

    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

  • Using vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights

    • Susan B. Anthony (3-D.8)
    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

• 15 Identify major world events that influenced Alabama since 1950, including the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terrorism.

• 16 Determine the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

  • Describing how technological advancements brought change to Alabamians, including the telephone; refrigerator; automobile; television; and wireless, Internet, and space technologies

  • Relating Alabama's economy to the influence of foreign-based industry, including the automobile industry