Alabama History Final and Benchmark Study Guide

Question 1

WHAT MAJOR NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL LANDS WERE IN THE NORTHERN MOST PART OF ALABAMA?

Accepted Answer

CHEROKEE

Question 2

THE CREEKS WERE AMONG THE MOST PEACEFUL NATIVE AMERICANS

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 3

THE MERCURY PROGRAM PUT _____ ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE.

Accepted Answer

ONE

Question 4

THE CHEROKEE WERE THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICANS TO DEVELOP A WRITTEN LANGUAGE

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 5

ALABAMA'S FIRST GOVERNOR WAS

Accepted Answer

WILLIAM WYATT BIBB

Question 6

TO MAKE HELEN KELLER THINK SHE LEFT HOME HER TEACHER RODE HER AROUND FOR HOURS BEFORE RETURNING

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 7

THE FIRST PERMANENT CAPITAL OF ALABAMA WAS

Accepted Answer

CAHABA

Question 8

FOUGHT AS A GENERAL IN THE CONFEDERACY BEFORE COMMANDING US TROOPS IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN

Accepted Answer

"FIGHTING" JOE WHEELER

Question 9

JOE LOUIS DEFEATED ______ FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

Accepted Answer

JAMES BRADDOCK

Question 10

ALABAMA WAS THE FIRST STATE TO MAKE CHRISTMAS AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 11

HE SAID THAT _____ WAS THE MOST THOROUGHLY SEGREGATED CITY IN AMERICA

Accepted Answer

BIRMINGHAM

Question 12

_____ WAS A YOUNG ITALIAN-AMERICAN RUNNER WHO'S CAREER WAS INTERRUPTED BY WWII.

Accepted Answer

LOUIE ZAMPERINI

Question 13

_____ STARTED THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT WHEN SHE REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT TO A WHITE MAN

Accepted Answer

ROSA PARKS

Question 14

HUNTSVILLE'S REDSTONE ROCKET PUT THE FIRST AMERICAN ASTRONAUT IN SPACE, _____

Accepted Answer

ALAN SHEPARD

Question 15

ANDREW JACKSON FOUGHT THE CREEKS AT THE WELL-FORTIFIED VILLAGE AT

Accepted Answer

HORSESHOE BEND

Question 16

THE 2ND AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD

Accepted Answer

JOE LOUIS

Question 17

TODAY, TUSCALOOSA IS THE HOME OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

Accepted Answer

ALABAMA

Question 18

ALABAMA'S FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR WAS

Accepted Answer

LURLEEN WALLACE

Question 19

FAMOUS FRONTIERSMAN WHO FOUGHT WITH ANDREW JACKSON AS A SCOUT AND HUNTED FOOD FOR THE ARMY

Accepted Answer

DAVID CROCKETT

Question 20

THE PERMANENT CAPITAL OF ALABAMA TODAY IS

Accepted Answer

MONTGOMERY

Question 21

PLAYED PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL, AND IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ATHLETES IN HISTORY

Accepted Answer

BO JACKSON

Question 22

ALABAMA WAS THE FIRST STATE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 23

HE SET UP HIS HEADQUARTERS IN HUNTSVILLE TO DEVELOP ROCKETS FOR NASA

Accepted Answer

WERNHER VON BRAUN

Question 24

IN CENTRAL ALABAMA, THE 3 INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING IRON AND STEEL ARE WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIUS

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 25

HE FORGAVE HIS CAPTORS, AND ALL BUT ONE MET WITH HIM AFTER THE WAR, THE _______.

Accepted Answer

BIRD

Question 26

_____ BECAME KNOWN AS THE MAGIC CITY BECAUSE OF HOW FAST IT GREW IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

Accepted Answer

BIRMINGHAM

Question 27

THE APOLLO PROGRAM PUT ______ ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE.

Accepted Answer

THREE

Question 28

WHAT MAJOR NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE DOMINATED MOST OF ALABAMA?

Accepted Answer

CREEK

Question 29

THE FIRST CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY WAS

Accepted Answer

MONTGOMERY

Question 30

THE GEMINI PROGRAM PUT ______ ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE.

Accepted Answer

TWO

Question 31

ANDREW JACKSON FOUGHT THE CHOCTAW TRIBE AT THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 32

DURING THE WAR OF 1812, ANOTHER WAR WAS FOUGHT IN ALABAMA. IT IS KNOWN AS THE

Accepted Answer

BOTH 1 AND 3

Question 33

THE ALL-TIME HOME RUN KING WHO DIDN'T CHEAT BY USING STEROIDS IS ALABAMA'S OWN

Accepted Answer

HAMMERIN' HANK AARON

Question 34

THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE WAS COSMONAUT, _____

Accepted Answer

VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

Question 35

DURING WORLD WAR II, ALABAMA INCARCERATED MANY GERMAN _____ IN POW CAMPS

Accepted Answer

ANSWERS 1, 2, AND 3

Question 36

THE UNITED STATES WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY COUNTRY TO SAFELY LAND A MAN ON THE MOON.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 37

_____ DEVELOPED BRAILLE, A SYSTEM OF READING AND WRITING FOR THE BLIND

Accepted Answer

HELEN KELLER

Question 38

HE WAS KNOWN AS THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE!

Accepted Answer

JESSE OWENS

Question 39

THE SOVIET UNION INTRODUCED THE _____ DURING THE VIETNAM WAR.

Accepted Answer

AK-47

Question 40

RED MOUNTAIN CONTAINS IRON ORE AND _____, 2 KEY INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING IRON AND STEEL

Accepted Answer

LIMESTONE

Question 41

JOE LOUIS LOST 1 MATCH AND WON THE 2ND AGAINST NAZI SUPERMAN, _______.

Accepted Answer

MAX SCHMELLING

Question 42

ASTRONAUT MEANS

Accepted Answer

STAR VOYAGER

Question 43

THE BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER WAS THE MAINSTAY OF THE US ARMY AIR CAVALRY IN THE VIETNAM WAR.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 44

WHAT MAJOR NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL LANDS WERE IN THE WESTERN MOST PART OF ALABAMA? TWO ANSWERS!

Accepted Answer

CHOCTAW, CHICKASAW

Question 45

RUSSIA PUT THE FIRST SPACE STATION INTO ORBIT, CALLED THE _______.

Accepted Answer

MIR SPACE STATION

Question 46

VULCAN IS THE ROMAN GOD OF

Accepted Answer

FORGE

Question 47

ALABAMA SECEDED FROM THE UNION IN

Accepted Answer

1861

Question 48

AMERICA ENTERED THE VIETNAM WAR TO STOP THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 49

JASPER AND CARBON HILL PROVIDED VAST AMOUNTS OF COAL FOR ALABAMA'S STEEL INDUSTRY

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 50

MLK WAS ASSASSINATED IN ______, TENNESSEE

Accepted Answer

MEMPHIS

Question 51

HERNANDO DESOTO WAS A SPANISH CONQUISTADOR WHO EXPLORED ALABAMA.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 52

ENSIGN _____ FOUGHT UNDER ANDREW JACKSON IN THE RED STICK WAR AND BECAME PRESIDENT OF TEXAS

Accepted Answer

SAM HOUSTON

Question 53

HE WAS PART OF THE SCLC WHICH MEANS

Accepted Answer

SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Question 54

DURING WORLD WAR II, BIRMINGHAM BECAME KNOWN AS THE ____ OF THE SOUTH

Accepted Answer

PITTSBURG

Question 55

CHIEF TUSKALOOSA AMBUSHED HERNANDO DESOTO AT THE BATTLE OF

Accepted Answer

MABILA

Question 56

VULCAN STANDS ABOVE RED MOUNTAIN AND IS THE LARGEST CAST IRON STATUE IN THE WORLD

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 57

THE UNITED STATES INTRODUCED THE _____ DURING THE VIETNAM WAR.

Accepted Answer

M-16

Question 58

LT. COL. _______ LED THE 7TH AIR CAVALRY INTO BATTLE WITH THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY.

Accepted Answer

HAL MOORE

Question 59

THE FIRST SATELLITE IN SPACE WAS RUSSIAN, CALLED _______.

Accepted Answer

SPUTNIK I

Question 60

THE SECOND PERMANENT CAPITAL OF ALABAMA WAS

Accepted Answer

TUSCALOOSA

Question 61

ALABAMA WAS THE 22ND STATE ADMITTED TO THE UNION IN

Accepted Answer

1819

Question 62

THE ONLY HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION TO NEVER LOSE A PROFESSIONAL FIGHT WAS

Accepted Answer

ROCKY MARCIANO

Question 63

THE _____ PROGRAM WAS THE FIRST REUSABLE SPACECRAFT.

Accepted Answer

SPACE SHUTTLE

Question 64

MOST WHITE ALABAMIANS OWNED SLAVES

Accepted Answer

FALSE

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