Inspired by Alabama\'s Bicentennial celebrations, Alabama from Territory to Statehood compiles the work of experts on the history of Alabama\'s formative years.
Over the next few years, Alabamians created the vision and laid the framework to create their own state, which formally entered the United States on December 14,.
In March 1817, the US legislature authorized the eventual split of the Mississippi Territory into a new State of Mississippi to the west and the Alabama Territory to the east.
Inspired by Alabama\'s Bicentennial celebrations, Alabama from Territory to Statehood compiles the work of experts on the history of Alabama\'s formative years