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Hernando de Soto explored the Southwest and met Chief Tuskaloosa in the Battle of Maubila.
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King Louis XIV pays twenty-five women to travel from France to come to Alabama to become wives of colonists.
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France gave the Alabama region to Great Britain.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. This machine could produce up to 50 pounds of cleaned cotton daily making cotton production more profitable for the Southern states.
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Mississippi Territory was formed from parts of Georgia and Alabama.
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Alabama became the 22nd state.
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Alabama left the Union and joined the Confederates.
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Martin Luther King Jr. marched to end black discrimination.
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It was created to help develop resources in the South.
