Montgomery Facts Review

Question 1

Who are two important people that played a role in the civil rights movement in Montgomery?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 2

What is the nickname for the state capitol grounds? Why?

Accepted Answer

Goat Hill; because Dexter land the bought to raise goats.

Question 3

How many times has our state capital been moved?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 4

What year did Alabama secede from the United States?

Accepted Answer

1861

Question 5

What river is Montgomery located on?

Accepted Answer

Alabama

Question 6

Who were the World War 2 African American fighter pilots that trained in Tuskegee?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 7

What destroyed the first capitol building?

Accepted Answer

a fire

Question 8

Montgomery is known as the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

The first capitol of the confederacy is located in Montgomery.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

What are two national landmarks located in Montgomery?

Accepted Answer

state capitol building and Dexter Avenue King Baptist Church

Question 11

What was Alabama's cash crop?

Accepted Answer

cotton

Question 12

What was the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

The African-Americans refused to ride city buses.

Question 13

What church in Montgomery was Martin Luther King, Jr. a preacher?

Accepted Answer

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Question 14

Who established the first flying school?

Accepted Answer

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 15

What year did Alabama become a state?

Accepted Answer

1819

Question 16

Who donated the land for Alabama's state capitol?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Dexter

Question 17

Who was the president of the Confederate States?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

What are the five towns (in order) where our capitol has been located?

Accepted Answer

St. Stephens, Huntsville, Cahaba, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery

Question 19

When did the Civil War begin?

Accepted Answer

1861

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