Selma, Alabama

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/selma-alabama

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Where is Selma, Alabama?County seat of Dallas County, Alabama, situated on the Alabama River
2. What is the population (2020)?17,971
3. What is the antebellum economic role?Key trading center and market town for King Cotton

Antebellum South: The historical period and cultural ideals of the Southern United States before the Civil War.
Confederate States of America: A republic formed in 1861 by eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union.
Bloody Sunday (1965): The violent confrontation on March 7, 1965, where peaceful voting rights marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Voting Rights Act of 1965: A federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting, significantly increasing African American voter registration.