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This type of music is associated with Louis Armstrong
What is jazz?
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the nineteenth?
This type of tax is placed on the removal of natural resources from the land.
What is severence?
This was the name for breaks in the levees on LA's waterways that resulted in the Great Flood of 1927.
What are crevasses?
This term is used to describe a ban on making and selling alcoholic beverages.
What is bootlegging?
He was the first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
Who was David Treen?
This was Huey Long's ultimate goal.
What is the Presidency of the U.S.?
He was handpicked by Huey Long to succeed him as governor.
Who was O.K. Allen?
This product was one of the first to be rationed during WWII.
What are tires?
This city is where the LA Ordnance Plant was built.
What is Minden?
This is what we call the hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII, fought mainly with words and diplomacy.
What is the Cold War?
The first woman from LA to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who was Mary Landrieu?
This famous LA pilot led the Fighting Tigers.
Who was Claire Chennault?
This is why Huey Long was shot.
What is: He threatened a number of his political opponents?
This is what African Americans did against buses in Baton Rouge in 1953.
What is boycott?
This is the main reason farm jobs disappeared after WWII
What is: Machines replaced many workers?
These are the rights that every individual has under the constitution.
What are Civil Rights?
This was the most important issue during Edwin Edwards 4th term as governor.
What is Medicaid spending?
He was Germany's leader during WWII.
Who was Adolph Hitler?
This was the name given to FDR's programs enacted by Congress to address the problems of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is: It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes?
This is where Elvis Presley made his debut before becoming internationally famous.
What is the Louisiana Hayride?
He was the first LA governor to be elected with the voting support of African Americans.
Who was Edwin Edwards?
He was the first African American to reach the gubernatorial runoff election in the 20th century.
Who is Cleo Fields?
The first African American to be elected to the legislature in the 1990s and later served as mayor of NOLA.
Who is Ernest Morial?
This was the name of the secret organization that used violence against blacks.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This strategy was used to protest the lack of services to blacks at lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
The first African American woman elected to the Louisiana state legislature.
Who was Dorothy Mae Taylor?
She was the first woman elected to the LA state senate.
Who is Virginia Shehee?
This pan led to the removal of the sale tax on food and utilitis and an increase in the state income tax.
What is the Stelly Plan?