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  1. The Bloomer in Alabama
    date December 9, 1896map GREENE, Alabamatags Arts/Leisure, Law, Politics, Women

    The bloomer was booming in Alabama. Passing by a young lady on the street one fine afternoon, an elderly Alabama politician caught an eyeful. Was she wearing an article of male clothing? The Greeneville Advocate documented the growing women's fashion trend with a sense of urgency: THE BLOOMER IN ALABAMA. The article informed the readership of the so-called Alabama Bill in the December 9, 1896 edition...

  2. First Meeting of the Alabama State Legislature
    date November, 1820map CAHAWBA(BIBB), Alabamatags Economy

    After being admitted to the Union in 1819 as the 22nd state, the Alabama state legislature convened for the first time in the fall of 1820. The initial order of business was to arrange memorials for the deceased Governor Bibb and instate his younger brother, Thomas, to serve out the remaining eighteen months of the term. The focus of the first assembly was primarily financial, because with the combined...

  3. William Rufus King Dies
    date April 18, 1853map BLOUNT, Alabamatags Health/Death

    Former Alabama Senator William Rufus King was inaugurated as the Vice President of Franklin Pierce on March 24, 1853 in Cuba, where he had gone supposedly to recover his failing health. However, his presence in Cuba gained additional meaning as a secret document that came to be known as the Ostend Manifesto was leaked in the later years of the Pierce administration. The President had sent diplomats...

  4. Prohibition Urged in Montgomery
    date February 10, 1881map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Health/Death

    A front-page article in the Montgomery Daily Advertiser put its finger on the pulse of the temperance movement in the area, claiming in its title, Prohibition: Let Us Have It. The culmination of many letters to the editor, the article served to educate readers about the dangers of alcohol and the benefits of prohibition. The temperance movement spread across the South in the last quarter of the 19th...

  5. Alabama's Constitutional Convention meets
    date November 5, 1867 to December 6, 1867map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Race-Relations, War

    Under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, Alabama was placed in the Third Military District along with Georgia and Florida. General John Pope, a native of Kentucky who nonetheless fought for the Union Army, oversaw the Reconstruction process in these three states. The Third Military District had its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, but General Pope exercised his control over all three states, regardless...

  6. The Alabama State Intelligencer established
    date April 10, 1829map TUSCALOOSA, Alabamatags Arts/Leisure, Education, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In Alabama's new capital of Tuscaloosa, the Alabama State Intelligencer was established on April 10th, 1829. This event was important not only for being the founding of a new paper, but this event also marked the growing role of Tuscaloosa in Alabama. In fact, the capital had recently been moved from Cahaba to Tuscaloosa and in 1829 the legislature met for the first time in the new capital (Alabama:...

  7. Slave's freedom paid for because of his talent as a preacher
    date May, 1829map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In 1829, a group of church goers and pastors from the Alabama Baptist Association pooled together 625 to purchase John Blackwell's slave Caesar. Caesar had become known around the Montgomery area as a magnificent preacher, and upon gaining his freedom went on to preach to numerous black, white, and mixed congregations. When his audiences became over excited he would reportedly say, When your cup is...

  8. Creek Indians burn the town of Roanoke, Georgia
    date May 15, 1836map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, War

    In May of 1836, a long simmering conflict between whites and Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia finally erupted. President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States had resulted in uncontrolled speculation, and frontier people were clamoring for more land. This was in spite of the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta, which stipulated that individual Creeks be given a parcel of 320 acres if they...

  9. Indian Removal Act
    date May 28, 1830map WASHINGTON, Marylandtags Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    Passed on May 28, 1830, The Indian Removal Act allowed the U.S. federal government to negotiate treaties with American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to exchange their current lands for new territories west of the Mississippi in what is now Oklahoma. As the Richmond Enquirer notes on May 25, the Act technically did not require the Indians to relocate and that they were not “to be...

  10. Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
    date September 27, 1830tags Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed between the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi and the U.S. Federal Government on September 27, 1830. Dancing Rabbit Creek was the first official treaty signed under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, an Act which allowed the President to negotiate with Indian tribes living within the boundaries of existing U.S. states to voluntarily exchange their lands for unorganized...

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