Which American President once lived in Louisiana as a citizen?
Who is Zachary Taylor?
100
Who led the British in the Battle of New Orleans?
Who is General Edward Pakenham?
100
Which invention cleaned out seeds and fibers from cotton more quickly than doing this by hand?
What is the cotton gin?
100
In what year was the capital of Louisiana moved to Donaldsonville (from New Orleans)?
What is 1830?
100
What was the belief that America's borders should spread from sea to sea?
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
200
Who united and led the Americans in the Battle of New Orleans?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
What year did the War of 1812 officially end, according to the Treaty of Ghent?
What is 1814?
200
What did Samuel Morse invent?
What is the telegraph...and the Morse Code to go with it?
200
Which were the two most important crops upholding Louisiana economy?
What are sugar cane and cotton?
200
Which treaty clarified the western boundary beyond the Mississippi River (and did away with the Neutral Zone, and allowed the United States to annex Florida)?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
Who cleared the large (gigantic) logjam in the Red River allowing more settlers to move to northwest Louisiana?
Who is Captain Henry Miller Shreve?
300
What year did the Battle of New Orleans take place?
What is 1815?
300
Which invention was an application of steam powering a boat (hint: It helped moved goods up and down the Mississippi River, and the first one showed up in New Orleans in 1812)?
What is the steamboat?
300
Which political group gained enough political power to move the capital of Louisiana to Baton Rouge?
Who are the Americans?
300
What year was the Adams-Onis Treaty signed?
What is 1819?
400
Which free man, living in New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south (in Louisiana) for twelve years?
Who is Solomon Northup?
400
Who won the Battle of New Orleans?
What are the Americans?
400
What did Jim Bowie invent?
What is the Bowie knife?
400
What ended the antebellum period of Louisiana?
What is the American Civil War?
400
Which political party was formed to oppose President Andrew Jackson (hint: many planters in Louisiana joined this political party)?
What is the Whig Party?
500
Who is known for his studies and painting of North American birds?
Who is John James Audubon?
500
What were the two main causes of the War of 1812?
What are the impressment of American sailors and the stirring up of Native Americans to hurt Americans on the western frontier?
500
What name was given to Americans that first came into Louisiana on flatboats?
Who are the "Kaintucks (Kaintocks)"?
500
What does the term "antebellum" mean?
What is "before the war" (--and, in this case, the time before the American Civil War)?
500
Which new technologies made communication and transportation easier in the 1830s and 1850s?