Culture
Regions
People
Expression
Famous
100

The way of life of a group of people.

What is culture?

100

*northernmost region of Louisiana

*region's largest urban area is Shreveport-Bossier City

*activities including hunting and fishing

*culture resembles neighboring states rather than South Louisiana

What is Sportsmen's Paradise?

100

A group of people who are or who consider themselves to be different from other members of the community based on several factors.

What is an ethnic group?

100

Where Jazz music was created.

What is New Orleans?

100

Famous piano-pounding, rock and roll pioneer.

Who is Jerry Lee Lewis?    

200

The art and science of designing and constructing buildings.

What is architecture? 

200

*includes cities of Eunice, Lafayette, and Thibodaux

*Acadians were the first European settlers

*oil industry brought many jobs

What is Cajun Country?

200

When the Acadians settled into Louisiana.

What is the 1760s?

200

One thing that the Africans brought to Louisiana music.

What are songs, drumming, or dancing?

200

New Orleans-born musician who helped the genre of Jazz evolve.

Who is Louis Armstrong?    

300

The blending of new customs with older ideas and practices to form entirely new cultural expressions.

What is cultural diffusion?

300

*stretches across center of state

*Alexandria and Pineville are largest urban areas

*home to Natchitoches, Louisiana's oldest city

What is the Crossroads Region?

300

How many groups of Native Americans are recognized as sovereign Indian nations.

What is 4?

300

Where the radio program "The Louisiana Hayride" was broadcast from.

What is Shreveport? 

300

New Orleans-born musician famous for recording songs classified as both rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

Who is Antoine “Fats” Domino?    

400

Scholars who study communities and help identify areas where similar pasts and patterns make a region distinct from its surroundings.

What are cultural anthropologists?    

400

*most important economic activities are ports and tourism

*includes Jefferson Parish, the Northshore, and Metairie

What is the Greater New Orleans Region?

400

Who settled into the northern region of the state and raised cotton farms.

Who are the Anglos?

400

The famous celebration before Lent.

What is Mardi Gras?
400

Twenty-year-old French Ursuline nun who served as a nurse in the hospital in New Orleans.

Who is Marie Madeleine Hachard?              

500

A way of speaking.

What is dialect?

500

*home of Baton Rouge

*work is dominated by chemical companies

What is Plantation Country?

500

The people believed to be responsible for creating jambalaya. 

Who are the Spanish?

500

A Cajun dance party.

What is a Fais-do-do?   

500

Louisiana author who wrote the famous novel The Awakening.

Who is Kate Chopin?         

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