Early America
This group of people lived in Louisiana before Europeans arrived.
Who are Native Americans (American Indians)?
This city is the capital of Louisiana.
What is Baton Rouge?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
These people were brought to America and forced to work without pay.
Who were enslaved Africans?
A landform that is surrounded by water on three sides is called this.
What is a peninsula?
This European explorer claimed Louisiana for France in 1682.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
Louisiana was purchased from France by this U.S. president in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This document is the highest law of the land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This war was fought between the North and the South.
What is the Civil War?
This type of map shows landforms like rivers and mountains.
What is a physical map?
The French, Spanish, and British all wanted control of this important river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The President is the head of this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
People earn money by doing this.
What is working (having a job)?
This colony was founded in 1607 and is known as the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
Louisiana became the ___ state in the United States.
What is the 18th state?
This group of people has the right to vote in elections.
Who are citizens?
Moving west to find land and opportunities was called this.
What is Westward Expansion?
This term means trading goods and services.
What is an economy?
This document was signed in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This major waterway is important for Louisiana’s trade and transportation.
What is the Mississippi River?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This belief said the U.S. should expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Louisiana’s economy benefits greatly from this natural resource industry.
What is oil and gas?