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12 Years an 8th Grader
Do 8th Graders "Know Nothing"?
Miss these, get a dodge ball to the face!
Diary of a 8th Grader
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this political party supported the sugar planters
What is Whig?
100
These two ethnic groups were in competition for political power in Louisiana during the antebellum period.
What is Creole and American?
100
This was the main belief and desire of Jackson's Democratic Party.
What is universal suffrage?
100
In New Orleans, how did the value of an Irish immigrant compare to that of a slave?
The Irish were valued much less than a slave.
100
This is how Solomon Northop describes his female owner, Miss Mary McCoy.
What is a lovely girl, beauty and glory of bayou Beouf, nice as far as slave owners go and good to her slaves.
200
These immigrants came to Louisiana after a series of potato famines in their country.
What is the Irish?
200
Exactly where did the "foreign French" come from?
What is France/French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars?
200
This is a tax placed on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
200
This invention made sugar cane production a valuable crop in Louisiana.
What is the vacuum pan?
200

This was a large group of sold slaves being moved from New Orleans.

What is a coffle?

300
The day on which slaves often got to rest.
What is Sunday?
300
This was the first city the capitol of Louisiana was moved to.
What is Donaldsonville?
300
Why were sugar planters drawn to the Whig party?
Because the Whig party supported high tariffs on imported sugar.
300
The new Louisiana constitution of 1845 was focused on providing this?
What is universal male suffrage/right to vote.
300
This man would have been hired by a plantation owner to guide the education of his children.
What is a private tutor.
400
the nick name for the party that believed immigrants were stealing jobs from citizens in New Orleans.
What is "Know Nothing" Party?
400
This is why the Americans wanted to move the capitol away from New Orleans.
What is Creole political power?
400
Name of the man who managed the sale of a plantation owners crops.
What is a factor?
400
Early in Antebellum Louisiana these two things were required for someone to be able to vote.
What is being a white male and owning property.
400
Political events in Antebellum Louisiana were often focused around this.
What is a barbeque/entertainment.
500
How would you describe the population of New Orleans between 1820 and 1860?
What is very diverse?
500

This man helped the plantation owner organize labor.

Who is an overseer?

500
These two crops made New Orleans and the plantation system very wealthy.
What is sugar cane and cotton?
500
This was the man on a plantation hired by the owner to manage the slaves and their work.
What is an overseer?
500
Every slave cabin had this in the middle of it.
What is a fireplace/chimney?