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What is farming?
How did most people in Alabama make their living?
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What is a coffle
A train of slaves fastened together
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What is a bridge builder
Who was Horace King?
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What is tutor
A teacher
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What are Yeoman farmers?
Which farmers lived on small farms and took care of their own families?
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What is the Harriet, a French ship
Which ship brought slaves to Alabama in 1721?
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Who is Daniel Pratt?
Who built factories in Alabama during the mid 1980s?
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What are toll roads
One must pay a fee to use
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What is next to rivers
Where were plantations built?
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What are songs, stories and superstitions?
What are folkways?
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Who is William Rufus King
He was elected Vice President in 1852
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What is Mobile
What was the largest city in Alabama in the early 1800s
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What is homespun?
What was a loosely woven fabric made of linen or wool?
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who did not support slavery
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Who is Eli Whitney
He invented the cotton gin in 1793
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What is the steamship
What helped farmers transport their goods up and down the river
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What is a place where the courthouse is, where people file legal documents
What is the county seat?
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What are sixteenth section lands
Units of land often set aside for schools
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What are industrialists
Owners or managers of factories
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What is two miles
How many miles long was the first railroad?
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