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WorksheetsLouisiana History Review
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Why was Louisiana predominately Roman Catholic as a colony?
It was settled by the British who were Roman Catholic
Slaves from the West Indies brought Catholicism with them.
The French and Spanish controlled the colony and they were Catholic
Native Americans in the area converted to Catholicism before the French arrived.
What was the one of the main sources of income for French Louisiana?
Fur
Wood
Boats and ships
Manufactured Goods
Which people group left Nova Scotia and settled in Spanish Louisiana?
Acadians
Cherokee Indians
German Exiles
African Slaves
What was the stated purpose of the Code Noir?
To allow for mistreatment of slaves
To regulate relations between slaves and colnists
To give slaves freedom
To send slaves back to their home countries
Slaves were allowed to hold property.
True
False
What was the disputed territory that caused the French and Indian War?
Ohio River Valley
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi River
Florida
Which country has not had control over Louisiana?
United States
Great Britain
Spain
France
The division of power between the states and federal government is called:
monarchy
federalism
republicanism
democracy
Which waterway defines the north eastern boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi?
Red River
Pearl River
Ouachita River
Mississippi River
How did clearing the course of the Red River affect the development of the Red River Valley?
Easier navigation increased the population.
Increased flooding decreased the population.
Faster moving water removed much of the rich soil farmers desired.
Natural levees were destroyed, drastically altering the course of the river.
Why was an extensive flood control system built along the banks of the Mississippi River?
to collect drinking water
to change the course of the river
to keep the river from flooding ever again
to protect the cities along the river’s course
Which has been responsible for damaging Louisiana’s coastal regions?
Earthquaks
Hurricanes
tsunamis
volcanoes
Which is a potential outcome if the erosion of Louisiana’s wetlands continues without intervention?
Fish and bird populations would increase.
Gas prices would decrease across the nation.
Seafood prices would increase across the nation.
There would not be any noticeable consequences.
How is the need to control the flooding of the Mississippi River related to coastal erosion?
Levees and dams allow humans to control sediment deposition.
Changing the river’s course makes the water flow faster into the Gulf.
Silt that would have slowed the process of subsidence is trapped behind dams.
Silt that would have been deposited along the banks of the river is diverted to the coast, increasing land area.
How did the extensive canal system though the coastal wetlands affect the region?
Plant and animal life flourished due to reduced flooding.
Farming land area was increased due to controlled flooding
Marsh grasses were lost as saltwater moved into freshwater marshes.
Directed water flow eliminated areas of brackish water, reducing some fish populations.
What year did Louisiana become the 18th state of the United States of America?
1800
1776
1900
1812
What is the state capital city of Louisiana?
Baton Rouge
Ville Platte
Abbeville
Lafayette
a dome-shaped structure in sedimentary rocks, formed where a large mass of salt has been force upward
salt dome
bayou
swamp
flood plain
Which of the following is NOT a physical region of Louisiana?
Mississippi Flood Plain
Red River Valley
Terraces
Mountains
Marsh Region
What was the location on the Mississippi River where Bienville lied in order to convince the British to turn around?
Land
English Turn
Mississippi
Pacific Ocean
What is an object made or used by people in the past?
Fossils
Artifacts
Stones
What is Poverty Point?
A settlement in northeastern Louisiana that was built long ago by early Native Americans
The law court started by Governor Cadillac
The economic theory that colonies exist to bring profit to the mother country.
What was Antebellum Louisiana’s economy based on?
agriculture and industrialization
Louisiana’s steamboat industry made New Orleans one of the largest ports in the world.
Louisiana concentrated on developing and exporting manufactured goods.
Louisiana’s economy focused on the selling of retail goods.
What did Eli Whitney invent?
He developed a snag boat that helped clear the Red River
He developed the cotton gin, which made picking and sorting cotton easier
He negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with Robert Livingston
He developed the telegraph which made communication faster in the South
Why was Congo Square so important for African Heritage?
Slaves were allowed to celebrate on plantations once a year on Christmas by dancing and playing music.
Slaves were allowed to celebrate daily through singing and dancing while they worked.
Slaves were allowed to congregate once a week on Sundays to dance and play music in a specific area of New Orleans.
Slaves were allowed to celebrate openly on plantations in the South.
What was the major difference between North and South Louisiana’s economy?
Louisiana’s north focused on Agriculture while Louisiana’s south created textile industries.
Louisiana south cultivated sugarcane while the north produced cotton.
Louisiana’s northern cotton farms did not use slaves whereas Louisiana’s southern cotton farms did.
Louisiana’s south developed other forms of manufacturing while the Louisiana’s north farmed sugarcane.
What does Antebellum mean?
before WW2
after the Civil War
during the Great Depression
before the Civil War
Louisiana is an important supplier of cotton for the global textile industry. Which factor is most responsible for this?
Louisiana’s population is not large enough to consume all of the cotton grown in the state.
Louisiana’s coastal location makes it easy to ship cotton around the world.
Louisiana has better conditions for growing cotton than most other places.
Louisiana does not have a very large textile industry of its own.
Which statement best describes the economic legacy of the Antebellum Era on Louisiana?
The economic legacy of the Antebellum Era is the large number of factories and industries developed to produce oil.
The economic legacy of the Antebellum Era is the large amounts of railroads built and the cities that developed around those railroad hubs.
The economic legacy of the Antebellum Era is slave economy developed on plantations and the agricultural path it set for Louisiana.
The economic legacy of the Antebellum Era economy involving innovative technology, shipping, and the logging industry.
This poster would have been created as a result of which of the following?
The Missouri Compromise
The Dredd Scott case
The Fugitive Slave Act
John Brown's Raid
General Scott's Anaconda Plan helped to win the war for the Union and involved a prominent role for LA. How was LA key to the Union's victory in the Civil War?
They had to gain control of LA cotton and textile mills.
They needed control of NOLA and the Mississippi River to divide the Confederacy and cut-off any supply lines.
They needed to gain control of oil fields in LA to deny gasoline access.
Where did the longest siege in American military history take place?
Fort Jackson
New Orleans
Alexandria
Port Hudson
Which of the following speeches by Lincoln liberated all slaves in rebelling territories?
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
"I Have a Dream" Speech
Which of the following were one of the most negative things General Butler did during Union occupation of New Orleans?
opened the port of New Orleans to allow for international trade
required Confederate supporters to wear armbands
provided jobs for the unemployed cleaning the city
issued Order 28 against all women who insulted Union officers
Analyze the image of the flatboat and steamboat. Select 2 advantages the steamboat has over the flatboat.
reduce travel time
reduce shipping costs
increase the cost of travel
decrease the number of travelers
Based on the chart above, how would you explain the changes in the shipment of sugar products through New Orleans from 1830 to 1860?
Transportation of sugar and molasses increased slightly.
Transportation of sugar and molasses decreased slightly.
Transportation of sugar and molasses increased dramatically.
Transportation of sugar and molasses decreased slightly.
Which of the following were the two major cash crops in Louisiana?
sugarcane,corn
tobacco, corn
cotton, wheat
cotton, sugarcane
What caused the Mississippi Bubble to burst?
a. The company quit investing in the colony, so profits decreased.
b. Too many people had to share the profits, so profits decreased and people stopped investing.
c. As the number of people wanting to invest rose, so did the price of the shares, creating an increase in the value of the company.
d. Expenses of the colony grew and it became impossible to maintain profit levels, so investors began to demand payments in cash. John Law left the country, taking all the investors’ money with him, so investors could not be paid.
What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
What organization was designed to intimidate former slaves and anyone who supported former slaves?
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmens Bureau
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.
Black Codes
Carpetbaggers
13th Amendment
Freedmen's Bureau
What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
to create equality for all Americans
to ensure equal distribution of power between National and State government.
to limit the power of the federal government
to give all people the right to vote
This system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced. It was called
slash and burn farming
share cropping
rent farming
farm to fork farming
Members of Congress who thought the people of the south should be punished for seceding
Radical Republicans
Freedmen's Bureau
Redeemers
Reconstruction Acts
Knights of the White Camellia
What is suffrage?
child labor laws
civil rights
right to vote
segregation
What Supreme Court case established the separate-but-equal concept?
Brown v. Board of Education
Marshall v. Marbury
Plessy v. Ferguson
Roe v. Wade
The Anaconda Plan was the Union Plan to....
invade all the major cities in the South.
force the south to surrender before the war even starts.
block all Confederate Ports and eventually cut the South in half.
invade the South with flesh eating snakes.
the withdrawal of a state from the Union
Secession
Emancipation
Sectionalism
Nationalism
the name of the government formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union in the early 1860s
Confederate States of America
United States of America
What caused the Great Flood of 1927?
Heavy rainfall in Louisiana flooded every river in the state
Heavy rains and melting snow as far north as Minnesota
Heavy rains in the Gulf of Mexico caused the Mississippi River to back up
Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River opened up and came together
Why did Louisiana government leaders decide to blow up the levees south of New Orleans?
So New Orleans would flood but the farmland surrounding would be saved
So New Orleans would be saved, diverting the water to southern parishes
To force the water back out to the Gulf of Mexico
To save the cotton plantations along the Mississippi River in northern Louisiana
While governor of Louisiana, which program did Huey Long propose?
New Deal
Great Society
Share Our Wealth
Peace Corps
Which of the following are examples of propaganda?
Art posters, movies, cartoons.
Pro war speeches (4 minute men).
Shaming campaigns (white feather).
All of the above
Conservatives who worked to reverse social and political progress during Reconstruction.
Bourbons and Redeemers
Progressive Republicans
Populists
Select two industries that saw significant success in Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Cotton Industry
The Lumber/Logging Industry
The Indigo Industry
The Oil/Petroleum Industry
Select two contributions Louisiana’s residents made towards America’s victory in WWII.
Purchasing war bonds and volunteering for military service.
Moving to rural areas in order to increase the amount of food crops grown.
Working in factories, such as Higgins Industries, making vehicles, ammo, and other war materials.
Louisiana played no role in America’s victory in WWII.
What type of manufacturing was Higgins Industries known for?
Shipbuilding, especially the Higgins Boat, to aid U.S. soldiers in attacking shorelines.
Tank building, especially the Higgins Tank, to aid U.S. soldiers in attacking fortified locations.
Plane building, especially the Higgins Plane, to aid U.S. soldiers in attacking from the air.
All of these
What major population shift occurred in Louisiana during WWII?
Many residents moved out of Louisiana during WWII
Residents moved from urban areas to rural areas.
Residents moved from rural areas to urban areas.
There was no population shift in the state during this time.
The policy of "separate but equal" was used to
increase the number of political parties.
justify the practice of legal racial segregation.
prevent the passage of unfair laws.
halt the creation of independent school districts.
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?
denying the right to vote based on race or color
denying the right to vote based on gender
allowing people to vote multiple times
allowing people under the age of 21 to vote
The main economic activity of The Poverty Point People was:
Hunting
Trapping
Trading
Fishing
How do we know the Poverty Point Indians traded with other tribes?
They wrote letters to their other Native American friends.
They gave other Native Americans hand woven baskets and beads.
Artifacts were found at Poverty Point that were made from materials not found in Louisiana.
They have the largest mounds found in North America.
This was one of the reasons that New Orleans was founded by Bienville.
Mardi Gras was already in the area
The French needed a place to store and trade goods
The Spanish had just gained control of the Mississippi River
The harsh climate made them settle there
Following in the footsteps of Desoto were the two French brothers Iberville and Bienville. What was the purpose of their voyage up and down the Mississippi River?
To secure Frances claims to establish forts
To find gold for France
To find the body of Desoto
They were hiding from France
Jim Crow laws
Segregated blacks and whites
Killed minorities
Resulted in slavery
Were ended after the Civil War
A set of laws established by Bienville in 1724 that regulated the behavior of slaves and laid out rules for their masters.
Casket Girls
Calumet
Code Noir
Concessions
The expansion, then collapse, of the Company of the Indies, a French company that invested in the Louisiana colony. Ex. Similar to a stock market crash.
Indigo
Joint-Stock Company
Mississippi Bubble
Mouth
Proprietorship
The branch of government that enforces, carries out, the law.
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
The branch of government that makes the laws.
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
The branch of government that reviews laws to determine whether they are fair or unfair.
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Louisiana law is based on what two countries' civil codes?
France and Spain
Spain and Britain
Germany and Italy
England and France
