1819 Alabama becomes a state

By jessy4d
  • Mar 9, 1519

    Settler

    Settler
    Alonzo de Pineda sails into th Gulf of Mexico
  • Apr 7, 1540

    Exploration

    Exploration
    Hernando de Soto leads an expedition into today's Alabama

  • Lakes

    Lakes
    Mobile is founded after the fortress at old Mobile is flooded.

  • Statehood

    Statehood
    Alabama becomes a state!

  • the facts

    the facts
    Mongomery becomes state capital.

  • Freedom

    Freedom
    President Abraham Lincoln frees all slaves in the Southern Confederacy with the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Rude Animals

    Rude Animals
    Boll weevils enter the state and begin destroying the cotton.

  • The History

    The History
    The Great Depression leaves many Alabamians jobless and homeless.

  • Cuaght!

    Cuaght!
    Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

  • Our leader

    Our leader
    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a 25,000-person civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

  • Killer

    Killer
    Bobby Frank Cherry is convinced of murder fo his part in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.

  • destruction

    destruction
    Hurricane Katrina damages coastal Alabama.