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

Alabama’s population increased from under 10,000 people in 1810 to more than 300,000 people by 1830.

Most Native American tribes were completely removed from Alabama within a few years of the passage of the Indian Removal Act by Congress in 1830.

Huntsville served as Alabama’s temporary capital from 1819 to 1820.

The first Constitutional Convention for Alabama was held in Huntsville from July 5 to August 2, 1819.

Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.

St. Stephens, now abandoned, served as the territorial capital from 1817 to 1819.

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

Thomas Bassett was a loyalist to the British monarchy during the Revolutionary era and one of the earliest white settlers in Alabama outside Mobile. He settled in the Tombigbee District during the early 1770s.

The Tombigbee District in Alabama covered the area within a few miles of the Tombigbee River, including portions of what is today southern Clarke County, northernmost Mobile County, and most of Washington County.