Editing Tuscaloosa, Alabama (section)

===Statehood and origin of name===
[[File:Oldalabamastatecapruinsintuscaloosa.png|thumb|The ruins of the Alabama State Capitol in Tuscaloosa at Capitol Park. The building served as the home of a women's college until it burned down in 1923.]]
The pace of European settlement in the Southeast increased greatly after the [[War of 1812]] and the [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]] and the subsequent availability of land previously settled by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 16, 2019|title=Alabama's 200 years in 200 images: Creek War, Civil War, and the KKK|url=https://www.al.com/news/g66l-2019/12/e9fe2674116545/alabamas-200-years-in-200-images-creek-war-civil-war-and-the-kkk.html|access-date=March 5, 2021|website=al|language=en}}</ref> A small assortment of log cabins soon arose near the large [[Creek (people)|Creek]] village at the fall line of the river, which the new settlers named in honor of the sixteenth-century [[Chief Tuskaloosa]] of a [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean]]-speaking tribe{{--}}combining the Choctaw words "tushka" or "tashka" ("warrior") and "lusa" ("black").<ref name="city">{{Cite web |title=History of Tuscaloosa |url=https://www.tuscaloosa.com/history |access-date=September 12, 2020 |website=City of Tuscaloosa |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Cobb |first=Mark Hughes |date=February 14, 2009 |title=Many names associated with Tuscaloosa have a story |language=en |work=Tuscaloosa News |url=https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090914/News/606109477 |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref>

In 1817, Alabama became a [[Alabama Territory|territory]]. On December 13, 1819, the territorial legislature incorporated the town of Tuskaloosa,<ref name="alabama-law-1823">''A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing The Statutes and Resolutions in Force at the end of the General Assembly in January, 1823''. Published by Ginn & Curtis, J. & J. Harper, Printers, New-York, 1828. Title 62. Chapter XXVI. Page 803-805. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JvtKAAAAYAAJ/page/n834 <!-- pg=803 --> "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Tukaloosa (sic).—Passed December 13, 1818." (Internet Archive)]</ref> one day before [[United States Congress|Congress]] admitted Alabama to the [[United States|Union]] as a U.S. state.

[[File:Wallace at University of Alabama edit2.jpg|thumb|Wallace standing against [[school integration in the United States|desegregation]] while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General [[Nicholas Katzenbach]] at the [[University of Alabama]] in 1963]]
From 1826 to 1846, Tuskaloosa was the [[List of capitals in the United States|capital]] of Alabama.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Tuscaloosa State Capitol Building – Alabama Architecture|url=https://alarchitecture.ua.edu/the-tuscaloosa-state-capitol-building/|access-date=March 5, 2021|website=alarchitecture.ua.edu}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Baggett|first=Will|date=September 27, 2016|title=Strange Alabama: A trip to the past in Capitol Park|url=https://cw.ua.edu/39814/top-stories/strange-alabama-a-trip-to-the-past-in-capitol-park/|access-date=March 5, 2021|website=The Crimson White}}</ref> The State House was built at the corner of 6th Street and 28th Avenue (now the site of Capitol Park).<ref name=":0" /> In 1831, the [[University of Alabama]] was established and the town's population and economy grew rapidly, but the relocation of the capital to [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]] caused a severe decline. The state legislature established Alabama State Hospital for the Insane (now [[Bryce Hospital]]) in Tuskaloosa in the 1850s, which helped restore the city's fortunes.