Alabama Studies Weekly - Week 10: Frontier Life in Alabama

Between 1810 and 1820, the population of Alabama grew very slowly because there wasn't enough land for everyone.

• True

• False

On the frontier, kids studied art, physical education, and science.

• True

• False

The armadillo has only soft skin to protect its body.

• True

• False

Slavery existed in Latin America before it existed in North America.

• True

• False

Kids learned what subjects in school?

• reading, astrology, art

• writing, science, physical education

• reading, writing, arithmetic

What did settlers call the room they built on their houses for traveling preachers?

• parson room

• parlor

• living room

Which of these was NOT a reason settlers came to Alabama?

• land

• rivers for shipping goods

• big cities

Who was the first Methodist minister in Alabama?

• Israel Pickens

• Lorenzo Dow

• Thomas Bibb

When were African slaves first brought to the South?

• 1515

• 1526

• 1619

Most people on the frontier lived in _____ ________.

• straw huts

• brick houses

• log cabins