During Reconstruction, Alabama was represented in Congress by three African-American congressmen: Jeremiah Haralson, Benjamin S. Turner, and James T. Rapier.

The expedition of Hernando de Soto passed through Mabila and other parts of Alabama in 1540.

Suburban Baldwin County, along the Gulf Coast, is the largest county in Alabama in both land area and water area.

The new voter registration laws, particularly the cumulative poll tax, also disenfranchised poor white voters. By 1941, whites constituted a slight majority of those disenfranchised by these laws, with 600,000 whites and 520,000 African Americans losing the ability to vote.

Alabama was recognized as a state in December 1819.

3.2% of Alabama’s area is water.

Cahaba in Dallas County was Alabama’s first permanent state capital from 1820 to 1825.

Alabama has a range of habitats, including the Tennessee Valley, Appalachian Plateau, Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in the north, Piedmont, Canebrake, Black Belt in the central region, and Gulf Coastal Plain and beaches along the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

The Alabama Territory was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1817.

The Great Migration led tens of thousands of African Americans from rural Alabama to seek opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, significantly affecting Alabama’s population growth rate from 1910 to 1920.