Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Pioneer roads into Alabama were dangerous due to
a. | multiple potholes. | c. | robbers attacking travelers. | b. | lack of fresh water
for horses. | d. | lack of trees
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Most Alabama settlers came from
a. | Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. | c. | Kentucky, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. | b. | South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. | d. | Georgia, Virginia, North and South
Carolina |
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Pioneers moved into Alabama along the
a. | Federal Road, Natchez Trace and the Birmingham Breezeway | c. | Federal Road,
Natchez Trace and the Huntsville Road. | b. | Federal Road, Huntsville Road, and Clinton
Causeway | d. | Natchez Trace,
Birmingham Breezeway, and Montgomery Road |
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In the 1820s the worldwide market for cotton grew rapidly because
a. | more cotton was needed for the textile mills of Great Britain and
France. | c. | slaves were learning new methods of picking cotton more quickly. | b. | more cotton was
needed for the Alabama textile mills. | d. | Alabamians wanted their clothes made from cotton. |
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Free blacks could not
a. | leave the farm. | c. | apply for a library card. | b. | drive. | d. | vote. |
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The former slave, Horace King, became a master
a. | cotton gin operator. | c. | chef. | b. | covered bridge builder. | d. | politician. |
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Completion
Complete each
statement.
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7.
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_____________________________ provided money for two early roads through
Alabama.
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8.
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Most Alabama pioneers were not squatters or speculators, but were ______________
farmers.
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9.
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In pioneer Alabama, the main farm crop was __________________.
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Most pioneers in Alabama lived in simple ________________ cabins.
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11.
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_______ _________________ invented the cotton gin in 1793 which made cotton a
very important crop in Alabama.
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The large farms that used slave labor were called
__________________________.
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Matching
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a. | a person who buys something planning to sell it later for a profit | e. | a person who owns
and works a small farm | b. | first people to settle an
area | f. | land beyond settled
areas | c. | a black person who was not a slave | g. | early settlers who did not wait to buy land,
but settled anyway | d. | passable by ship | h. | people who owned
plantations |
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13.
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squatters
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14.
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yeoman
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15.
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navigable
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16.
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planters
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17.
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pioneers
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18.
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speculator
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19.
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freedman
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20.
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frontier
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