![]() Alabama's economy in the 21st century is based on automotive, finance, tourism, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville would help Alabama's economic growth in the mid-to-late 20th century, by developing an aerospace industry. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.ĭuring and after World War II, Alabama grew as the state's economy diversified with new industries. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists ( Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". ![]() Īlabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. Alabama ( / ˌ æ l ə ˈ b æ m ə/) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north Georgia to the east Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south and Mississippi to the west. ![]()
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