Everything you need to know about the Yellowhammer State.

3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective Understand the acquisition of territory to the United States Understand how groups can impact change at the local, state, and national level.

 Spanish explorers are believed to have arrived at Mobile Bay in  Mobile Bay- the arm of the Gulf of Mexico.

 Capital- Montgomery  Governor- Robert Bentley  Flower- Camellia  Bird- Yellowhammer  Song- “Alabama”  Tree- Southern Long Leaf Pine  Salt water fish- Fighting Tarpon  Fresh Water Fish- Largemouth Bass

 Horse – Racking horse  Mineral- Hematite  Rock – Marble  Game Bird- Wild Turkey  Dance- Square Dance  Nut- Pecan  Insect- Monarch Butterfly  Alabama- ERuyfms ERuyfms

 On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time.  This happened in Montgomery Alabama, the state’s capital.

 April 16 th Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.  May 1963-During civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala., Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators.  September 15 th Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.

 Today paper, chemicals, rubber and plastics, apparel and textiles, primary metals, and automobile manufacturing constitute the leading industries of Alabama.  Continuing as a major manufacturer of coal, iron, and steel, Birmingham is also noted for its world-renowned medical center.  The state ranks high in the production of poultry, soybeans, milk, vegetables, livestock, wheat, cattle, cotton, peanuts, fruits, hogs, and corn.

 Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, AL.  The Space and Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, AL.  Montgomery, AL is home to many great places:  The White House of the Confederacy  The Civil Rights Memorial  The Rosa Parks Museum and Library

 Record high temperature of 112 degrees on September 5 th  Record lowest temperature of -27 degrees on January 30 th 1966.

 Alabama State University  Jacksonville State University  Troy University  The University of Alabama  Auburn University  Samford University  University of Alabama, Birmingham (home of the major teaching hospital)

 Held in Dothan, Alabama  It is the nations’ largest peanut festival celebrating the harvest season and honoring the farmers.  Alabama is known for boiled peanuts.  Complete with fair rides and games  Even a beauty pageant!  Who wouldn’t want to be Ms. National Peanut? oZrgy1Klw

 My husband was born at Flowers hospital in Dothan, AL.  My in-laws live in Enterprise, AL where my father-in-law workers as a state inspector for Sessions Peanut Company.  He pulls samples to test in order to provide quality peanut products.

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