Mississippi River
Battle of New Orleans
Civil War
Reconstruction
Laws
100
True or False: The Mississippi is the longest river in the world
What is false?
100
The Americans fought against them in the War of 1812
Who are the British?
100
Nicknames for the Union soldiers and the Confederate soldiers
What is Yankees and Rebels?
100
Threat that General Butler made to the women of New Orleans if they disrespected the Union soldiers
What is mess up their reputation?
100
Legal term meaning separated that is illegal today
What is segregation?
200
Important port city in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi
What is New Orleans?
200
Type of geographic area where the British soldiers had a hard time fighting
What are the bayous (swamps) of Louisiana?
200
Issue that caused Louisiana to withdraw from the United States
What is slavery?
200
Group in Louisiana that had the higher population numbers after the Civil War
Who were former slaves?
200
Type of law practiced in Louisiana named for a French general
What is the Napoleonic code?
300
City in Mississippi and on the Mississippi that was of strategic importance during the war between the states
What is Vicksburg?
300
Two types of men who fought with General Jackson and who were underestimated by the British
What are frontiersmen and slaves?
300
Name of the new country after seven states withdrew from the United States
What is the Confederate States of America?
300
Group that formed to use violence and intimidation to keep blacks from voting or participating in other civic activities
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Nickname given to a set of laws were meant to keep blacks in a subservient role- named for a dance that was a put-down to blacks
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
Two major uses of the Mississippi
What is transportation and trade?
400
Jean Lafitte's "profession" before he assisted the Americans during the Battle of New Orleans
What is pirate?
400
Word that means to withdraw as from a union
What is secede?
400
Amendment that outlawed slavery
What is the 13th?
400
Supreme Court case in 1896 that involved separate streetcars in New Orleans designated for blacks and white that said segregation was legal
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
500
Two conflicts of the 1800s where the Mississippi was important
What is the War of 1812 and the Civil War?
500
Nickname for General Andrew Jackson
What is "Old Hickory"?
500
Word that means "before the war"
What is antebellum?
500
Black governor of Louisiana
Who is P.B.S. Pinchback?
500
Supreme Court case in 1954 that overturned segregation
What is Brown v Board of Education?
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