Terms
What is the definition of Disfranchised?
What is take away the vote form
Oscar J. Dunn
First African American ever elected to statewide office in Louisiana
What was the Reconstruction Acts?
An act allowing slaves and freemen of color to vote
State flower
Magnolia
Carpetbaggers
a person who commits fraud
What group went around assaulting any free black or white who supported the Reconstruction?
The Knight of White Camellia
Louisiana was the ___ state to join the Union.
6th
Andrew Johnson
the 17th president who took over after Lincoln was killed and further issued the reconstruction plan
What did they build in favor of this act?
Schools for the freed slaves an for poor whites
What year did Louisiana include a clause that allowed for later consideration of amendment?
1864
Who disapproved of the Reconstruction plan;
North or South
South
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Assassin who plotted and executed Lincoln's death
What political party called themselves Redeemers?
Democrats
What world known music was born here?
Jazz
What did the South assume about carpetbaggers?
That they took advantage of the chaotic postwar conditions to gain political power and to enrich themselves.