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- State: Alabama
- Capital: Montgomery
- Admission to Union: December 14, 1819
- Nickname: Heart of Dixie
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State Background:
The French founded the first European settlement in the state with the establishment of Mobile in 1702. Southern Alabama was French from 1702 to 1763, part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1780, and part of Spanish West Florida from 1780 to 1814. Northern and central Alabama was part of British Georgia from 1763 to 1783 and part of the American Mississippi territory thereafter. Its statehood was delayed by the lack of a coastline (rectified when Andrew Jackson captured Spanish Mobile in 1814). Alabama was the twenty-second state admitted to the Union, in 1819.
Sources: Wikipedia.com, May 2006
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