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100
The first place African American soldiers actively fought in Louisiana during the civil war.
What is Port Hudson
100
These former slaves had a tough time even after the Civil War.
What are freedmen?
100
What was the name given to laws designed to separate blacks and whites.
What is Jim Crow Laws.
100
This tax is levied on those who take natural resources out of the ground.
What is a severance tax.
100
This mustachioed villain led Germany during World War II.
Who is Hitler.
200
most important Louisiana feature in the Anaconda Plan.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
The role of the federal organization was originally intended to help freedmen find food and work.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This man wanted to ride on the white only train car in Louisiana.
Who is Homer Plessy?
200
What agricultural product made Louisiana rich during the antebellum period?
What is cotton?
200
West Baton Rouge Parish was one of three parishes who housed these during World War II.
What are prisoner of war camps?
300
This man had a bad reputation in New Orleans after it fell to the Union Army.
Who is Beast Butler?
300
This president's plan was to bring the south back into the Union as quickly as possible.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v Ferguson made this practice legal in the United States.
What is segregation?
300
This river runs all the way from Minnesota and is one of the most important rivers in the world.
What is the Mississippi River
300
These were held several times before the US entered World War II. Each one was held in a different region of Louisiana.
What is a mock war.
400
This was the longest siege of the Civil War.
What is Port Hudson.
400
This political group was against the freedom of former slaves after the war.
What is the democrat party.
400
This amendment to the US Constitution gave African American's the right to vote.
What is the 13th Amendment.
400
This natural resource propelled Louisiana's economy after World War II.
What is oil?
400
This event led the US to enter WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
500
This Confederate capital was saved by the efforts of a few brave men at the Battle of Mansfield.
What is Shreveport?
500
This party supported the freedmen and their right to vote after the Civil War.
What is the Republican party?
500
A boycott of this transportation was first held in Baton Rouge.
What is a bus.
500
What agricultural product is grown in large quantities around West baton rouge Parish?
What is sugar cane
500
This small island nation bombed Pearl Harbor and woke a sleeping giant.
What is Japan?