A Reconstruction plan that returned property to low ranking confederates, and required 10% of population to swear an oath of loyalty to the US
What is Linoln's 10% Plan?
100
This time period in Louisiana's history was constantly changing and very violent.
What is Reconstruction?
100
What were the two goals of the Anaconda Plan?
1. Blockade the Confederate coastline and stop them from receiving supplies
2. Seize Mississippi River and split the Confederacy
100
The ruling of this case said that segregation was legal and constitutional, causing Louisiana to adopt even more segregation laws
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
A plan that required the South to be separated into 5 different districts, each under the control of a military governor.
What is Radical (Military) Reconstruction?
200
This Constitution gave African Americans the right to vote, leading to many becoming congressmen afterwards. This also created the first Bill of Rights for the state constitution, leading to riots over its inclusion.
What is the Constitution of 1868?
200
Economic goals of Anaconda Plan
Take Port of New Orleans
200
This was means to disenfranchise African Americans by preventing everyone who could not read or write from voting
What is a literacy test?
200
This amendment prevented the buying and selling of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
A person from the North who came to the South during Reconstruction, often looking to make money or get involved in politics
What is a carpetbagger?
300
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
What were battles in Louisiana fought over?
Control of waterways
300
This prevented African Americans from voting, it said that if your father or grandfather could not vote before 1867, you could not vote. But if he could, you could.
What is the grandfather clause?
300
This was a tax put on extracting natural resources (ex: you would pay it if you cut down a tree)
What is a severance tax?
400
A riot in which freedmen seized control of a town and armed themselves. A group of white men attacked on Easter Sunday and murdered many of the freedmen.
What is the Colfax Riot?
400
This Amendment gave black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
How did Governor Allen help people of Louisiana during the Civil War? (2)
1. Opened trade with Mexico
2. Gave money to soliders' families
400
This was a fee that people were required to pay in order to register to vote
What is a poll tax?
400
This event started World War I
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
An event where Democrats attacked the Republican government and won. The US troops had to come to reinstall the Republican government. This event proved that the Republican government could not exist without the help of the federal US government.
What is the Battle of Liberty Place?
500
This amendment gave black men citizenship and ensured that they had equal rights and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The Civil War hurt the cotton industry by....
Reducing the number of people available to work the fields
500
This Louisiana State Constitution severely restricted the voting rights of African Americans
What is the Constitution of 1898?
500
This caused the Flood of 1927 (2)
What is the levees only flood control policy and spring flooding?