This is a SAMPLE outline of what is to be turned in on Friday, January 13th. All outlines should be completed and turned in on Friday. Details and information will differ depending on the state you've chosen.
Alabama Outline
I. Alabama
a. Got it's name from an Indian tribe called "Alabama" that lived on the major river by the same name
b. Became a state on December 14, 1819
c. Alabama means "tribal town" in the Creek Indian language and "plant cutters" in Choctaw. Alabama is named for the Native
Americans that lived there.
d. State nickname
i. Yellowhammer State
ii. Received it's nickname during the Civil War
1. The soldiers led by Gneral Forrest had been on the battlefields for a very long time and their uniforms were faded and old.
The new soldiers from Huntsville, lef by Rev. D.C. Kelly, had new unifroms with bright yellow on the sleeves, collars and
coattails. As Kelly's soldiers arrived in Kentucky one of Forrest's soliders, Will Arnett, cried out, "Yellowhammer,
Yellowhammer, ficker, flicker!". the term spread quickly through the Confederate Army and soon all Alabama troops were
referred to unofficially as "Yellowhammers."
II. Early Historical Facts/Historical Events
a. First known inhabitants/exploration
i. 10,000 BC - 7,000 BC - the first inhabitans of the area were of the Paleo-Indian culture, semi-nomadic hunter gatherers who lived
in caves or in the open countryside around 10,000 years ago
ii. The first permanent european settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1702. The British
gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, but had to give up almost all the Alabama region to the US and Spain
after the American Revolution
iii. Between 1805 and 1806, the Choctaw tribes were forced to give their land to white settlement. The Creek Indians attempted to
ally themselves with other tribes from the North in resistance to white settlement, but were ultimately unsuccessful. As a result,
most of the native people of Alabama were resettled in the Oklahoma territory
iv. In the 1950's and 60's, Alabama was the sit of such landmark civil-rights actions as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in (1955-56)
and the "Freedom March" from Selma to Montgomery (1956)
a. Got it's name from an Indian tribe called "Alabama" that lived on the major river by the same name
b. Became a state on December 14, 1819
c. Alabama means "tribal town" in the Creek Indian language and "plant cutters" in Choctaw. Alabama is named for the Native
Americans that lived there.
d. State nickname
i. Yellowhammer State
ii. Received it's nickname during the Civil War
1. The soldiers led by Gneral Forrest had been on the battlefields for a very long time and their uniforms were faded and old.
The new soldiers from Huntsville, lef by Rev. D.C. Kelly, had new unifroms with bright yellow on the sleeves, collars and
coattails. As Kelly's soldiers arrived in Kentucky one of Forrest's soliders, Will Arnett, cried out, "Yellowhammer,
Yellowhammer, ficker, flicker!". the term spread quickly through the Confederate Army and soon all Alabama troops were
referred to unofficially as "Yellowhammers."
II. Early Historical Facts/Historical Events
a. First known inhabitants/exploration
i. 10,000 BC - 7,000 BC - the first inhabitans of the area were of the Paleo-Indian culture, semi-nomadic hunter gatherers who lived
in caves or in the open countryside around 10,000 years ago
ii. The first permanent european settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1702. The British
gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, but had to give up almost all the Alabama region to the US and Spain
after the American Revolution
iii. Between 1805 and 1806, the Choctaw tribes were forced to give their land to white settlement. The Creek Indians attempted to
ally themselves with other tribes from the North in resistance to white settlement, but were ultimately unsuccessful. As a result,
most of the native people of Alabama were resettled in the Oklahoma territory
iv. In the 1950's and 60's, Alabama was the sit of such landmark civil-rights actions as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in (1955-56)
and the "Freedom March" from Selma to Montgomery (1956)