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Alabama Primary Sources Gallopade International

The Alabama Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Alabama.

The Alabama Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The Alabama Primary Sources are:
1. Map of Mobile showing Fort Cond in form of a 7-pointed star along the Mobile River Alabamas first permanent European settlement 1725
2. Illustration depicting William Weatherford surrendering to General Andrew Jackson after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1814
3. Photograph of the first inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama February 1861
4. Painting of the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War August 1864
5. Photograph of federal troops occupying the Courthouse Square in Huntsville, Alabama soldiers reportedly tore down the North Alabama College to construct their winter quarters 1864
6. Photograph of Benjamin Sterling Turner, U. S. Congressman from Alabama 1871
7. Photograph of members of the Alabama Reconstruction legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery 1872
8. Photograph of "Old Main," the first building on Auburn Universitys campus served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War 1883
9. Photograph of a history class at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee 1902
10. Photograph of the developing skyline of Birmingham November 1915
11. Photograph of Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Companys