Chapter 7 - Settlement of Alabama

Question 1

name three roads that pioneers used to come to Alabama.

Answer 1

Federal Road, Natchez Trace, Hunstville Road

Question 2

What was the French Colony near Demopolis called?

Answer 2

Vine & Olive Colony

Question 3

What were the large farms using slave labor called?

Answer 3

plantations

Question 4

What was the name given to most farmers in Alabama who grew crops?

Answer 4

yeoman farmers

Question 5

What is a squatter?

Answer 5

a person who didn’t wait to buy land. They just moved onto a piece of land, cleared it, built a cabin & started farming.

Question 6

What types of crops did pioneer families grow?

Answer 6

Vegetables, corn, cane (for molasses) cotton, some grew tobacco

Question 7

What are some of the French place-names the people of the Vine & Olive Colony left behind? Where did your mom grow up?

Answer 7

Marengo, Demopolis, Linden.

Linden, AL in Marengo County.

Question 8

How did the invention of the Cotton Gin impact Alabama?

Answer 8

people were able to grow more cotton because it didn’t take as much time to remove the seeds. Alabama became the “cotton kingdom” of the South.