Alabama
State of the United States of America
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Alabama
Agriculture in Alabama is no longer concentrated, as before, on one crop - cotton. The state grows cereals (corn, sorghum), peanuts, soybeans, vegetables and fruits (particularly peaches).
State of the United States of America
At least twelve thousand years ago, the territory of the modern state of Alabama was already mastered by Indian tribes. By the beginning of European colonization, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, Mobile and, of course, the tribe, after which the state was named, Alabama, lived here.
The tribes of Alabama belonged to the "Mississippian culture", which is also called the "mound builders". They were characterized by the creation of high earthen mounds with flat tops - mounds - on which temples, residential buildings of leaders, etc. were erected.
The main occupation of the Indians was agriculture, based on the cultivation of corn. They had a rather complex hierarchical structure, developed trade relations, including those with very remote regions.
The first European explorer of Alabama was the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, who led an expedition that passed through the territory of modern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi in 1539-40.
The first English traders came to the north of present-day Alabama from the territory of the British colony of Carolina in the eighties of the XVII century.
In 1817, the Territory of Alabama was created by the US Congress, and on December 14, 1819, Alabama became the twenty-second state of the United States.
National Historic Landmarks in Alabama
Ivy Green is a house-museum in Tuscumbia, where writer Helen Keller spent her childhood. Built in 1820.
Fort Morgan, which was built on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1834 and was used by the Confederates during the American Civil War.
Government Street Presbyterian Church in Mobile is one of the oldest and best-preserved Greek Revival churches in the United States. Built in 1837.
Barton Hall is a Greek Revival manor near the town of Cherokee built in 1840.
The Alabama State Capitol, also known as the "First Confederate Capitol". Built in Montgomery in 1851.
City Hall is a complex of buildings in the city of Mobile, built in 1857 to house the municipality and the market.
Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, built in 1859 in the Gothic Revival style.
Gaineswood is a Greek Revival plantation house in Demopolis, built in 1861.
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, pastored from 1954 to 1960 by Martin Luther King. Built in 1889.
Union Station in Montgomery, built in 1898.
The Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville, built in 1903
Brown Chapel Church in Selma, which served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders and the starting point for the 1965 Montgomery marches. Built in 1908.
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where members of the civil rights movement met. On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb in it, the explosion of which killed four and injured twenty-two people. Built in 1911.
Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, built in 1926, served as the headquarters of the Christian Human Rights Movement from 1956-1961.
Foster Auditorium is one of the buildings of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, built in 1939.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge across the Alabama River in Selma, where a bloody clash between civil rights marchers and militias took place in 1965. Built in 1940.
The USS Alabama Museum Ship was a battleship built in 1942 that saw action in the Pacific during World War II. Now moored in Mobile.
Engine and structure test facility at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, built in 1957.
The dynamic test facility for the Saturn V rocket at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, built in 1964.
The Neutral Buoyancy Simulator is a laboratory built at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville in 1968 to train astronauts.
Alabama state symbols
Tree - long-coniferous (marsh) pine (Pinus palustris)
Flower (cultivated) - Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica)
Flower (wild) - oak hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Beast - American black bear (Baribal, Ursus americanus)
Horse breed - racing horse
Bird - Golden (Awk-billed, cuckoo) woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) and wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Fish (marine) - Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus)
Fish (freshwater) - largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Reptile - Alabama red-bellied tortoise (Pseudemys alabamensis)
Amphibious burrowing salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti)
Mollusk - Juno's snail (Scaphella junonia johnstoneae)
Insect - Monarch Danaid (Danaus plexippus)
Butterfly - sailboat glaucus (Papilio glaucus)
Nut - pecan
Berry - western raspberry
Fruit - peach
Vegetable - yam (sweet potato)
Alcoholic drink - Alabama whiskey
Pie - Pie Lane
Precious (ornamental) stone - blue star quartz
Mineral - hematite
Rock - marble
Fossil - Basilosaurus (Basilosaurus cetoides)
Dance - square dance
Song - "Alabama" (Alabama, music by Edna Goossen, lyrics by Julia Tattooiler)
About 4,800,000 people live in the state of Alabama (23rd place in the USA), while the average population density is about 34 people per km2 (22nd place in the USA).
The largest city in Alabama is Birmingham with over 210,000 people. Other large cities of Alabama are the state capital, Montgomery (more than 200,000 inhabitants), Mobile (almost 200,000 inhabitants), Huntsville (about 180,000 inhabitants), Tuscaloosa (about 90,000 inhabitants).
The largest ethnic (national) groups among the population of the state of Alabama:
Descendants of immigrants from Africa
(African Americans) - about 26%
English - about 24%
Irish - about 8%
Germans - about 6%
Scots - Irish (Ulster Scots) - about 2%
The ethnic diversity of the population of Alabama (as well as the population of the United States as a whole) is also determined by historical reasons.
So, for example, the largest city in the south of Alabama, Mobile, was founded by the French, subsequently control over it passed to England, Spain and the USA.
Alabama's economy is highly diversified and rapidly growing.
Minerals are mined in Alabama (mainly coal), lumber and paper, rolled metal (including iron and steel pipes), plastic products, and clothing are produced.
Agriculture in Alabama is no longer concentrated, as before, on one crop - cotton. The state grows cereals (corn, sorghum), peanuts, soybeans, vegetables and fruits (particularly peaches). Animal husbandry (mainly dairy) and poultry farming are well developed.
But the main directions of development of the economy of modern Alabama are mechanical engineering and high technologies.
Alabama
State of the United States of America
Agriculture in Alabama is no longer concentrated, as before, on one crop - cotton. The state grows cereals (corn, sorghum), peanuts, soybeans, vegetables and fruits (particularly peaches).
At least twelve thousand years ago, the territory of the modern state of Alabama was already mastered by Indian tribes. By the beginning of European colonization, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, Mobile and, of course, the tribe, after which the state was named, Alabama, lived here.
The tribes of Alabama belonged to the "Mississippian culture", which is also called the "mound builders". They were characterized by the creation of high earthen mounds with flat tops - mounds - on which temples, residential buildings of leaders, etc. were erected.
The main occupation of the Indians was agriculture, based on the cultivation of corn. They had a rather complex hierarchical structure, developed trade relations, including those with very remote regions.
The first European explorer of Alabama was the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, who led an expedition that passed through the territory of modern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi in 1539-40.
The first English traders came to the north of present-day Alabama from the territory of the British colony of Carolina in the eighties of the XVII century.
In 1817, the Territory of Alabama was created by the US Congress, and on December 14, 1819, Alabama became the twenty-second state of the United States.
National Historic Landmarks in Alabama
Ivy Green is a house-museum in Tuscumbia, where writer Helen Keller spent her childhood. Built in 1820.
Fort Morgan, which was built on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1834 and was used by the Confederates during the American Civil War.
Government Street Presbyterian Church in Mobile is one of the oldest and best-preserved Greek Revival churches in the United States. Built in 1837.
Barton Hall is a Greek Revival manor near the town of Cherokee built in 1840.
The Alabama State Capitol, also known as the "First Confederate Capitol". Built in Montgomery in 1851.
City Hall is a complex of buildings in the city of Mobile, built in 1857 to house the municipality and the market.
Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, built in 1859 in the Gothic Revival style.
Gaineswood is a Greek Revival plantation house in Demopolis, built in 1861.
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, pastored from 1954 to 1960 by Martin Luther King. Built in 1889.
Union Station in Montgomery, built in 1898.
The Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville, built in 1903
Brown Chapel Church in Selma, which served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders and the starting point for the 1965 Montgomery marches. Built in 1908.
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where members of the civil rights movement met. On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb in it, the explosion of which killed four and injured twenty-two people. Built in 1911.
Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, built in 1926, served as the headquarters of the Christian Human Rights Movement from 1956-1961.
Foster Auditorium is one of the buildings of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, built in 1939.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge across the Alabama River in Selma, where a bloody clash between civil rights marchers and militias took place in 1965. Built in 1940.
The USS Alabama Museum Ship was a battleship built in 1942 that saw action in the Pacific during World War II. Now moored in Mobile.
Engine and structure test facility at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, built in 1957.
The dynamic test facility for the Saturn V rocket at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, built in 1964.
The Neutral Buoyancy Simulator is a laboratory built at the George Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville in 1968 to train astronauts.
Alabama state symbols
Tree - long-coniferous (marsh) pine (Pinus palustris)
Flower (cultivated) - Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica)
Flower (wild) - oak hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Beast - American black bear (Baribal, Ursus americanus)
Horse breed - racing horse
Bird - Golden (Awk-billed, cuckoo) woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) and wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Fish (marine) - Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus)
Fish (freshwater) - largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Reptile - Alabama red-bellied tortoise (Pseudemys alabamensis)
Amphibious burrowing salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti)
Mollusk - Juno's snail (Scaphella junonia johnstoneae)
Insect - Monarch Danaid (Danaus plexippus)
Butterfly - sailboat glaucus (Papilio glaucus)
Nut - pecan
Berry - western raspberry
Fruit - peach
Vegetable - yam (sweet potato)
Alcoholic drink - Alabama whiskey
Pie - Pie Lane
Precious (ornamental) stone - blue star quartz
Mineral - hematite
Rock - marble
Fossil - Basilosaurus (Basilosaurus cetoides)
Dance - square dance
Song - "Alabama" (Alabama, music by Edna Goossen, lyrics by Julia Tattooiler)
About 4,800,000 people live in the state of Alabama (23rd place in the USA), while the average population density is about 34 people per km2 (22nd place in the USA).
The largest city in Alabama is Birmingham with over 210,000 people. Other large cities of Alabama are the state capital, Montgomery (more than 200,000 inhabitants), Mobile (almost 200,000 inhabitants), Huntsville (about 180,000 inhabitants), Tuscaloosa (about 90,000 inhabitants).
The largest ethnic (national) groups among the population of the state of Alabama:
Descendants of immigrants from Africa
(African Americans) - about 26%
English - about 24%
Irish - about 8%
Germans - about 6%
Scots - Irish (Ulster Scots) - about 2%
The ethnic diversity of the population of Alabama (as well as the population of the United States as a whole) is also determined by historical reasons.
So, for example, the largest city in the south of Alabama, Mobile, was founded by the French, subsequently control over it passed to England, Spain and the USA.
Alabama's economy is highly diversified and rapidly growing.
Minerals are mined in Alabama (mainly coal), lumber and paper, rolled metal (including iron and steel pipes), plastic products, and clothing are produced.
Agriculture in Alabama is no longer concentrated, as before, on one crop - cotton. The state grows cereals (corn, sorghum), peanuts, soybeans, vegetables and fruits (particularly peaches). Animal husbandry (mainly dairy) and poultry farming are well developed.
But the main directions of development of the economy of modern Alabama are mechanical engineering and high technologies.
August 18, 2019
August 18, 2019
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