Places on a Map
Indians and Explorers pt. 2
Reconstruction pt. 2
Southern Economics
Famous People and Events
100
On Lake Pontchartrain, this city is a major port and control of it defines the Louisiana experience.
What is New Orleans?
100
Claimed Louisiana for King Louis XIV of France.
Who is La Salle?
100
This plan was very forgiving of the South, only Ten Percent had to swear an oath!
What is Lincoln's Plan?
100
This word best describes the Southern economy Antebellum. Many Southerners opposed abolition because they feared this form of economy could not work without it.
What is agricultural economy?
100
This battle made Andrew Jackson a hero, but was fought after the War of 1812 ended.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
200
This geographical feature forms most of Louisiana's border with Mississippi.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
Louisiana's second proprietor.
Who is John Law?
200
This plan intended to punish the South by stripping former Confederates of their property, but in the end it put white Southerners back in power.
What is Johnson's Plan?
200
White landowners shared portions of their land with farmers in return for some of the farmer's crop. Farmers faced debt peonage because the profit never covered their expenses.
What is sharecropping?
200
This man fought against Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans and commanded the British forces.
Who is Edward Packenham?
300
This city is in the Northwest corner of Louisiana along the Red River. If you go any farther you'd be in Arkansas!
What is Shreveport?
300
Louisiana's first proprietor who ran Louisiana like a business and caused suffering for the colonists.
Who is Antoine Crozat?
300
This plan consisted of four parts and was meant to punish the South. There was a military occupation of the South, the Democratic Party was disenfranchised, states had to ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, and they had to swear oaths of loyalty.
What is Congressional/Radical/Republican/Military Reconstruction?
300
The dream of many Southerners after the Civil War to change the South from an agricultural economy to an industrial, manufacturing economy.
What is the New South?
300
This party blamed immigrants for American unemployment.
What is the Know Nothing Party/American Party?
400
This geographical feature was where Jean Lafitte and his pirates made their base.
What is Barataria Bay?
400
This tribe inhabited the land near Lafayette and traded with European settlers of the region. Their culture helped influence the Acadian culture in the region.
Who are the Chitimacha?
400
These people came from the North to profit off of Reconstruction in the South politically and monetarily.
What is a carpetbagger?
400
Louisiana's biggest benefit as a result of the New South, they didn't exist it 1860 and exploded by 1880. It allowed people to transport goods quickly.
What is the railroad?
400
This treaty gave the United States the right of deposit, but was revoked when Napoleon reclaimed Louisiana from Spain.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
500
This geographical feature forms part of Louisiana's border with Texas and is below Toledo Bend.
What is the Sabine River?
500
This tribe inhabited the area that is today Shreveport and helped develop Louisiana's image as a Sportsman's Paradise.
Who are the Caddo?
500
Someone born in the South, but supported the Republicans in Reconstruction. Seen as traitors to their people.
What are scalawags?
500
This system provided cheap labor for businesses and was Louisiana's response to the rising cost of labor after the Civil War. It unfairly affected African Americans due to the black codes.
What is the convict lease system?
500
This was the year Louisiana became a state.
What is 1812?
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