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After the election of Abraham Lincoln from the anti-slavery Republican Party in 1860, plus the prior secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida, Alabama delegates also voted to secede from the United States, on January 11, 1861, in order to join and form a slaveholding Southern republic, [4] mostly of the Cotton States. [5]
At the end of WWII, ... it was enforced for whites only and did not apply to farms. By 1910 Alabama still lagged with 62 percent of its children in school, compared ...
Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819. Huntsville, Alabama, served as temporary capital from 1819 to 1820, when the seat of government moved to Cahaba in Dallas County. [4] [5] Within 20 years of becoming a state, Alabama was the largest cotton producer in the US, producing 23% of the nation's cotton crop. [6] [7]
The full end of slavery in the United States did not come until December 6, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [29] In Native American territories that had sided with the Confederacy, slavery did not end until 1866. [30]
On May 4, all remaining Confederate forces in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana east of the Mississippi, ... Legally, the war did not end until August 20, 1866 ...
Why did CFP select SMU over Alabama? Alabama came into Sunday's rankings with a 9-3 overall but a 5-3 record in SEC play, with two of those losses coming against then-unranked Vanderbilt and ...
Alabama takes on South Carolina at 11 a.m. Saturday. Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. F ollow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Alabama (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ b æ m ə / AL-ə-BAM-ə) [9] is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. [10] [11]