The Kingfish
Asking BLAZE to Prom

Be Huey
Wet Toes of 1927
So Corrupt!!
100
This was Huey's ultimate political goal.
What is to become President?
100
Term used to describe a ban on making and selling alcoholic beverages.
What is Prohibition?
100
Who did Huey Long say he supported as a lawyer and a politician?
What is the poor/farmers?
100

This is the name for the more than 120 breaks in the Mississippi Levees during the Flood of 1927.

What is a "crevasse"?

100
These were 2 of Huey's most notoriously corrupt things done during his reign.
What is embezzlement from state employees, Louisiana Progress, intimidation of rivals, controlling LSU, etc.
200
This type of tax would be placed on the removal of something from nature - Huey used it against Standard Oil.
What is severance?
200

The only known connection between Carl Weiss and Huey P Long.

Carl's father-in-law was a prominent judge in N.O. and an enemy of HPL?

200
Huey Long's first political position found him battling this huge corporation in Louisiana.
What is Standard Oil?
200
These 2 parishes were flooded on purpose by the city of New Orleans engineers during the Flood of 1927.
What is St. Bernard & Plaquimine.
200
These were 3 things considered "good" that Huey did for Louisiana.
What is textbooks, roads, bridges, LSU, poll tax, property tax, charity hospitals, etc.
300
Huey's program to take from the rich and redistribute to the poor.
What is "Share the/our Wealth"?
300

What was HPL's first job before he got into law and politics?  It would help him later in politics.

What is a door-to-door salesman?

300
This devastating natural event in Louisiana caused many farmers and poor to be drawn to Huey's political message.
What is Flood of 1927?
300
This was the method used to purposefully flood other parishes in order to save New Orleans.
What is dynamiting the levees?
300
This man assassinated Huey Long.
Who is Carl Weiss?
400

Huey's promised he would use taxation of big companies to improve the lives and living conditions of poor people, making all citizens one of these?

What is "Every Man A King"?

400

What was the prime illegal source of cash HPL used to maintain his lifestyle(i.e. BLAZE, hotels, parties, bodyguards)?

What is the Deduct Box Scheme?

400
This was the name for the safes used in the process of requiring contributions by state employees to Long's political organization.
What is the Deduct Box?
400
How was the flood linked to Huey Long's run for the governorship of Louisiana?
It drew farmers and the poor to his populist/progressive message and campaign.
400

Huey was born in this parish - a known base for populist sentiments.

What is Winn Parish?

500

After the assassination attempt on HPL, this is actually what killed him.

What is a mistake made by his surgeon in N.O.?

500

He was HPL's main partner in crime and was involved in the 3,000+ miles of new roads scheme.  When HPl became a senator he also made him Governor in his place.

Who is OK Allen?

500
Name of the newspaper Huey created and used as a media propaganda and intimidation machine.
What is the "Louisiana Progress"?
500
What events in nature caused the Flood of 1927 in Louisiana?
What is more than 40 days of straight rain in the northern states and head waters of the Mississippi?
500
The name of the first bridge spanning the Mississippi built by Huey in New Orleans.
What is the Huey P Long bridge?
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