Huey Long

Select two examples of people that supported the Progressive/People's Populist Party.

• A wealthy bank executive in New Orleans

• A tenant farmer working as a sharecropper.

• A owner of an oil field in the bayous of south Louisiana.

• A dockhand working in a port city along the Mississippi River .

• A owner of a large logging company in Central Louisiana.

For which of the following events is Huey Long responsible for?

• the discovery of oil in Louisiana

• the improvement of roads and bridges

• government loaded with loyal friends

• school books paid for by the state

True or False: there was an attempt to impeach Huey Long.

• True

• False

What does the above image show about the 1927 Flood? (*Note - darker colors indicate flooded areas)

• Many areas of Louisiana were heavily affected by flooding.

• The flooding was small and only affected a small amount of the state.

• The flooding mainly affected Northwest Louisiana.

• The flood was not a significant problem for Louisiana.

Which Louisiana industry grew as the demand for fuel grew?

• Logging and Lumber

• Oil and Petroleum

• Cotton and Sugarcane

• Circuitry and Computer Technology

a physicist whose work in the aerospace industry helped revolutionize astrophysics and semiconductor manufacturing. He is credited with 20 inventions, eight of which he received patents for. Perhaps his best-known innovation is for an X-ray spectrometer used to analyze distant galaxies and other deep-space phenomena, which he patented in 1984. His research into plasma etching, for which he received a patent in 1989, is still used in the production of computer chips, also known as semiconductors.

• George Alcorn

• George Wasington Carver

• Granville T. Woods

• Alexander Miles

Voice Over Internet Protocol was invented by __________, an African American Ph.D. holder in quantitative analysis from the University of Southern California.

• Dr. Marian Croak

• Carter G Woodson

• Leonard Howell

• Walter Rodney

A poor family who owned a small house would most likely not pay any taxes because of Long's

• severance tax

• free healthcare clinics

• taxes on big businesses

• Homestead Exemption

Which of the following is a similarity shared by both the New Deal and Share Our Wealth?

• Both programs planned to help poor Americans have access to economic opportunities such as jobs and pensions.

• Both programs sought to drastically limit the wealth of elite businessmen.

• Both programs created the Civilian Conservation Corps to work on large building projects.

• Both programs would allow US citizens to claim any owned land as sovereign which would allow Americans to begin using their own forms of currency.

The massive protest against racial injustices at the U.S. capital in the summer of 1963 in which MLK gave his iconic I Have a Dream speech is remembered as...

• March on Washington

• March on Birmingham

• March on Selma

• March of Dimes