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4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 12

Alabama Fever & Statehood

A new state, its leaders and its moving capital

What your child practices

'Alabama fever' and statehood in 1819, Alabama's early leaders, why the capital moved from St. Stephens and Huntsville to Cahawba, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, early schools and colleges, and how Alabamians earned a living before 1860.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 4.10; 4.12 · Alabama fever and statehood, early leaders and capitals, and economic life and education in Alabama before 1860

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. “Alabama fever” brought many settlers, and Alabama became a state in 1819.
  2. The capital moved: St. Stephens, Huntsville, Cahawba, Tuscaloosa (1826–1846), then Montgomery.
  3. Cahawba lost the capital partly because it often flooded.

Example: In what year did Alabama become a state? It was during the time of Alabama fever. The year was 1819. Answer: 1819

Alabama Fever & Statehood in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 7 of 12 in 4th grade Social Studies, after The Federal Road & the Creek War and before Cotton, Slavery & Removal.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Spring Hill College in Mobile, founded in 1830, is Alabama's oldest…

    • steel mill
    • college
    • railroad
    • fort

  2. Question 2

    Alabama's first state constitution was written in 1819 in…

    • Huntsville
    • Montgomery
    • Dothan
    • Selma

  3. Question 3

    Before statehood, Alabama was part of a US territory. Alabama Territory's capital was…

    • Montgomery
    • Mobile
    • Birmingham
    • St. Stephens

  4. Question 4

    Alabama became a state on December 14 of…

    • 1865
    • 1776
    • 1819
    • 1901

  5. Question 5

    Alabama's first governor was…

    • Jefferson Davis
    • Andrew Jackson
    • William Wyatt Bibb
    • John Adams

  6. Question 6

    Daniel Pratt built a factory in Prattville that made…

    • phones
    • rockets
    • airplanes
    • cotton gins

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