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4.1
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4.1a
Course of Study Objective
Identify historical and current economic,
political, and geographic information
about Alabama on thematic maps.
Examples: weather/climate maps, physical
relief maps, waterway maps, transportation
maps, political boundary maps, economic
development maps, land-use maps,
population maps
• Discussing patterns and types of migrations as
they affect the environment, agriculture,
economic development, and population
changes in Alabama
Describe cultures, governments, and economies of
prehistoric and historic Native Americans in
Alabama.
- prehistoric Native Americans-Paleo
Indian, Archaic, Woodland,
Mississippian;
- historic Native Americans-Choctaw,
Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek
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4.2
1
4.2a
• Identifying locations of prehistoric and historic
Native Americans in Alabama
1
4.2b
• Describing types of prehistoric life in Alabama
Examples: plants, animals, people
1
4.2c
• Identifying roles of archaeologists and
paleontologists
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4.3
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4.3a
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4.3b
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4.3c
Course of Study Objective
List reasons for European exploration and
settlement in Alabama and the impact of
Europeans on trade, health, land expansion,
and tribal reorganization of Native American
populations in Alabama.
• Locating European settlements in early
Alabama
• Explaining reasons for conflicts between
Europeans and Native Americans in
Alabama from 1519 to 1840
Examples: differing beliefs regarding land
ownership, religious differences, cultural
differences, broken treaties
• Identifying main causes, key people, and
historical documents of the American
Revolution and the new nation
Examples:
- main causes-taxation, lack of
representation, distrust of centralized
power;
- key people-George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin;
- historical documents-Declaration of
Independence, Constitution of the United
States
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4.3d
• Naming social, political, and economic
outcomes of the Creek Civil War and the
Creek War in Alabama
Examples:
- social-adoption of European culture by
Native Americans, opening of Alabama land
for settlement;
- political-breaking of power of Native
Americans, labeling of Andrew Jackson as a
hero and propelling him toward presidency;
- economic-acquisition of tribal land in
Alabama by the United States
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4.3e
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4.4
1
4.4a
1
4.4b
1
4.4c
• Describing human environments created by
settlement
Examples: housing, roads, place names
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4.5
Describe Alabama's entry into statehood, including
Alabama's constitutions and the three
branches of government.
• Identifying the impact of the Trail of Tears on
Alabama's Native Americans
Describe the relationship of the five geographic
regions of Alabama to the movement of
Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth
century.
• Describing natural resources of Alabama
Examples: water, trees, coal, iron,
limestone, petroleum, natural gas, soil
• Describing the natural environment of
Alabama
Examples: wildlife, vegetation, climate,
bodies of water
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4.5a
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4.5b
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4.6
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4.6a
2
4.6b
2
4.7
2
4.7a
Course of Study Objective
• Explaining political and geographic reasons for
changes in location of Alabama's state capital
• Identifying prominent political leaders during
early statehood in Alabama
Examples: William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas
Bibb, Israel Pickens, William Rufus King
Identify cultural, economic, and political
aspects of the lifestyles of early
nineteenth-century farmers, plantation
owners, slaves, and townspeople.
Examples:
- cultural-housing, education, religion,
recreation;
- economic-transportation, livelihood;
- political-inequity of legal codes
• Recognizing the impact of slavery on Alabama
during the early nineteenth century
• Identifying major areas of agricultural
production using an Alabama map
Example: cotton raised in the Black Belt and
fertile river valleys
Identify reasons for Alabama's secession from the
Union, including sectionalism, slavery, state
rights, and economic disagreements.
• Identifying Alabama's role in the organization of
the Confederacy
Examples: secession convention,
Montgomery as first state capital,
inauguration ceremony for leaders
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4.8
2
4.8a
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4.9
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4.9a
Course of Study Objective
Explain Alabama's role in and economic
support of the Civil War.
Examples: provision of supplies
through the Port of Mobile; armament
center at Selma; production of iron
products, munitions, textiles, and ships
• Explaining resulting economic conditions of the
Civil War, including the collapse of
economic structure, destruction of the
transportation infrastructure, and high
casualty rates
Describe political, social, and economic
conditions in Alabama during
Reconstruction.
Examples:
- political-military rule, presence of
Freedmen's Bureau, Alabama's readmittance
to the Union, sharecropping;
- social-carpetbaggers, scalawags, Ku Klux
Klan (KKK);
- economic-sharecropping, scarcity of goods
and money
• Describing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States
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4.9b
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4.9c
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4.10
3
4.10a
Course of Study Objective
• Identifying the role of African Americans in
politics during Reconstruction in
Alabama
Examples:
- Benjamin Sterling Turner, United States
House of Representatives (1871-1873);
- Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama State
Legislature (1870-1874) and United
States House of Representatives (18751877);
- James Rapier, United States House of
Representatives (1873-1875)
• Describing policies of major political parties in
Alabama
Describe significant social and educational
changes in Alabama during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
Examples:
- social-implementation of "separate but
equal" court decision (Plessy versus Ferguson),
birth of National
Association for
Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
through
Niagara Movement;
- educational-establishment of normal
schools and land-grant colleges such as
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (A &
M) University, Auburn University, and
Tuskegee University
• 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
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4.10b
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4.10c
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4.10d
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4.11
• Explaining the impact of the voting rights
revision in the Alabama Constitution of
1901, including Jim Crow Laws
Example: restriction of eligible voters
• Identifying Alabamians who made
contributions in the fields of science,
education, the arts, the military, politics,
and business during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries
Examples:
- science-George Washington Carver,
William Gorgas, Robert Van de Graff;
- education-Booker T. Washington, Julia
Tutwiler, Helen Keller, Maria Fearing;
- arts-William Christopher (W. C.)
Handy;
- military-Joe Wheeler, Richmond
Pearson Hobson;
- politics-John Tyler Morgan, Patti
Ruffner Jacobs, Thomas E. Kilby;
- business-William Pettiford
• Discussing cultural contributions from various
regions of Alabama that contributed to the
formation of a state heritage
Examples: folklore, folk art, vernacular
architecture
Describe the impact of World War I on Alabamians.
Examples: migration of African Americans
to the North and West, utilization of
Alabama's military
installations and
training facilities, increased production of
goods for war
effort
4.11a
• Recognizing Alabama participants in World
I
Example: Alabama Rainbow Division
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• Identifying the use of new technology in
World War I
Examples: airplanes, machine guns,
chemical warfare
Explain effects of the events of the 1920s and the
Great Depression on different socioeconomic
groups.
Examples:
- effects of 1920s-increase in availability
of electricity and
employment opportunities,
increase in
wages and product consumption,
overproduction of goods, stock market
crash;
- effects of Great Depressionovercropping of land, unemployment,
poverty, establishment of new federal
programs
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4.11b
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4.12
4
4.12a
4
4.13
4
4.13a
• Describing effects of supply and demand on the
economy
Describe the economic and social impact of
World War II on Alabamians.
Examples: entry of women into
workforce, increase in job
opportunities, rationing, utilization of
Alabama's military installations
• Recognizing Alabama participants in World War
II
Examples: Tuskegee Airmen, women in the
military
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4.13b
• Locating military bases in Alabama
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4.14
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4.14a
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4.14b
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4.15
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4.15a
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4.16
Course of Study Objective
Describe the social, political, and economic
impact of the modern Civil Rights
Movement on Alabama.
• Identifying important people and events of the
modern Civil Rights Movement
Examples:
- people-Martin Luther King, Jr., George C.
Wallace, Rosa Parks;
- events-Montgomery bus boycott,
Birmingham church bombing, Selma-toMontgomery march
• Identifying benefits of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Identify major world events that have impacted
Alabama since 1950.
Examples: Korean Conflict, Vietnam
War, Persian Gulf War, War on Terrorism
• Recognizing Alabamians who have made
significant contributions to society since
1950
Examples: Henry "Hank" Aaron, Hugo
Black, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Nat "King"
Cole, Marva Collins, Jeremiah Denton, A.
G. Gaston, Mae C. Jemison, Harper
Lee,
Willie Mays, Harold (Hal) Moore, Thomas
Moorer, Jesse Owens,
Condoleezza Rice,
Wernher von Braun,
George C. Wallace,
Lurleen B. Wallace,
Hank Williams,
Kathryn Tucker Windham
Describe the impact of population growth on
cities, major road systems,
demographics, natural resources, and the
natural environment of Alabama during the
twentieth century.
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4.16a
• Describing how technological advancements
brought change to Alabamians during the
twentieth century
Examples: improvement of quality of life
and expanded employment opportunities
through use of electricity, improvement
of transportation through introduction of
automobiles and airplanes, improvement
of communication through use of
satellites and cellular telephones
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4.16b
• Describing the growing influence of foreignbased companies
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