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The state flag,
adopted in 1895, bears a crimson cross on a white field. The state
seal, first adopted in 1819, has a map of Alabama that shows the
state's rivers and bordering states. The rivers served as
important shipping routes when Alabama had few good roads. Today,
the rivers remain vital to the state as sources of hydroelectric
power.
Alabama, one of the Southern States of the United States, is known
as the Heart of Dixie. Alabama occupies a central place in the
history of the South. The Constitution of the Confederacy was
drawn up in Montgomery, the state capital, in 1861. The Alabama
Capitol served as the first Confederate Capitol. There, Jefferson
Davis took office as president of the Confederacy. |
