1. Alabama – U.S.A.
Michelangelo Casabianca
Classe III AE
Liceo Socio-Economico “G.Perticari”

2. Alabama State
Flag
Alabama is a federal state located in the Southern
United States of America
Seal

3. Introduction
It is bordered by 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-most extensive and the
23rd-most populous of the 50 United States.
The capital of Alabama is Montgomery.

4. Geography
Alabama is known for its scenic beauty, and has a lot to
offer those who enjoy the great outdoors.
Alabama can be characterized as having 4 regions :
Mountains - the north It's laden with
shimmering lakes, waterfalls, caverns and
tree-crested mountaintops
(Huntsville, Decatur, Tuscumbia)
Metropolitan Alabama - central big cities
(Birmingham, Tuscaloosa)
River Heritage - the south, except Gulf
Coast (Montgomery, Auburn, Dothan)
Gulf Coast - the south west
the sugar-white sandy beaches of Gulf
Shores and Orange Beach (Mobile)

5. Economy
• Agriculture: Poultry and eggs, cattle, nursery stock,
peanuts, cotton, vegetables, milk, soybeans.
• Industry: Paper, lumber and wood products, mining,
rubber and plastic products, transportation
equipment, apparel.

6. History
The state is named after the Alabama tribe, a Native
American people who originally lived at the confluence of the Coosa and
Tallapoosa Rivers.
Originally colonized by the French in 1702, Alabama exchanged hands a few
times moving from Spanish control to British and finally becoming a completely
US territory around 1814. At the time its rich soil made Alabama an attractive
location for agricultural settlers who arrived in droves during the 1820’s and
30’s. The main crop was cotton and the vast majority of labor was supplied by
slaves brought by the land owners or imported from neighboring slave states.
Alabama history is emblazoned by battles over racial equality and has been hot
bed of controversy since before the American Civil War, culminating in both
massive civil unrest and major victories for the Civil Rights Movement in the
1960s from lynching and rioting to desegregation and a repeal of the Jim Crow
Laws.

7. Curiosity
Did You Know...?
The first inhabitants of Alabama
were Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians.
Did You Know...?
NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville
built the first rocket to put
humans on the moon.
Did You Know...?
Alabama marble is considered
the purest and whitest in the world.
It has been used in buildings such as
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

8. Tourism