Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.10a
The Standard
- SS24.4.10
- Explain how “Alabama fever” influenced Alabama's settlement, economic growth, and political development, leading to statehood and the 1819 constitution.
Identify contributions of Alabama’s early political leaders, including William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas Bibb, Israel Pickens, William Rufus King, and John W. Walker.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify five early Alabama leaders and the jobs they held. They explain how governors led the new state and senators represented it in Congress.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student names William Wyatt Bibb as the first governor, Thomas Bibb as his successor, and Israel Pickens as the third governor. They identify John W. Walker and William Rufus King as Alabama's first U.S. senators, and know that King later became vice president.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mix up the two Bibbs or assume they held office at the same time. They may call Walker and King governors because all five names appear together.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students sort the five names into governors and U.S. senators. Ask them to number the governors in the order they served.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs five leader cards and two job labels; have them sort the cards and place the governors in order.
Ask students to write two sentences answering, 'Why did Alabama need both a governor and U.S. senators after statehood?'
Read clues such as 'first governor' and 'senator who later became vice president'; students hold up the matching name card.
Use official state and Senate websites to compare the jobs of Alabama's current governor and senators with those of the early leaders.
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- SS24.4.15d
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