About three-fifths of Alabama’s land area is part of the Gulf Coastal Plain, a gentle plain that descends towards the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
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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.
Suburban Baldwin County, along the Gulf Coast, is the largest county in Alabama in both land area and water area.
After seceding, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, and the Confederacy’s capital was initially at Montgomery. Alabama contributed about 120,000 soldiers to the war effort, though few battles were fought in the state.
Hurricane Ivan, a category 3 storm upon landfall, struck Alabama in 2004, causing over $18 billion in damage. It was one of the most destructive storms in the state’s modern history.
The economy of Alabama’s Black Belt region was built around large cotton plantations whose owners’ wealth grew mainly from slave labor. Southeastern planters and traders from the Upper South brought slaves with them as the cotton plantations in Alabama ...Read more
The expedition of Hernando de Soto passed through Mabila and other parts of Alabama in 1540.
Organized insurgent groups in Alabama included The Ku Klux Klan, the Pale Faces, Knights of the White Camellia, Red Shirts, and the White League.
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.
"America" can mean the whole continents—North America and South America together. So it’s like the big landmass with tons of countries. But most people, especially in casual talk, use "America" to mean just the United States. Saying "America" instead of "the United States" isn’t usually offensive, bRead more
“America” can mean the whole continents—North America and South America together. So it’s like the big landmass with tons of countries. But most people, especially in casual talk, use “America” to mean just the United States.
Saying “America” instead of “the United States” isn’t usually offensive, but some folks from other countries in the Americas might roll their eyes because it feels like the US is claiming the whole continent’s name for itself. It’s kinda like calling yourself “the world” when you’re just one part of it.
But honestly, in everyday conversation, calling the US “America” is super common and most people don’t get salty about it. Just depends on who you’re talking to!
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