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Chapter 8— Louisiana from Colony to Territory to State
1. What port did the US citizens want to use but the Spanish had possession?
Port at New Orleans
2. What was the outcome of Pinckney’s treaty?
gave Americans the right to trade and deposit goods in New Orleans.
3. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Leader of France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase
4. What was the outcome of the Treaty of San Ildefonso?
organized the transfer of Louisiana from Spanish back to French control in 1800
5. Which president organized the Louisiana Purchase? What two men did he send to France to buy
New Orleans?
Thomas Jefferson; Robert Livingston and James Monroe
6. How much did the United States spend on the Louisiana Territory?
$15 million
7. Which two countries owned Louisiana before the Louisiana Purchase?
France & Spain
8. What did the Adams-Onís Treaty do?
clarified how much land was added to the United States after the Louisiana Purchase
9. How did the Louisiana Purchase benefit the United States?
the U.S. became a potential world power; doubled the size of the U.S.; U.S. got control of the
Mississippi River
10. Who did Jefferson send to lead Louisiana?
William Claiborne
11. Describe the West Florida Rebellion. Who was involved? Why did the Anglos revolt? How was the
U.S. involved?
Spain owned West Florida. Anglo migrants that lived in West Florida wanted to become part of
the U.S. In 1810, they revolted against the Spanish. The rebels declared themselves an
independent republic called the Republic of West Florida. The U.S., however, declared West
Florida part of the Louisiana Territory three months later.
12. What is manumission?
masters setting their slaves free
13. How did the slave code of 1806 decrease the number of freed slaves?
self-purchase was no longer available to slaves
14. Which country did the U.S. go to war with in the War of 1812?
Britain
15. Why did the War of 1812 begin?
because of issues that had never been resolved at the end of the American Revolution
16. What is impressment? How was it used during the War of 1812?
The British captured American sailors and forced them into service for the British navy
17. Who was the American General during the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
18. Describe the location of the British during the Battle of New Orleans.
The British were stuck between the Mississippi River and a cypress swamp
19. Who was Jean Lafitte? How did he help during the Battle of New Orleans?
A pirate that helped supply the Americans with ammunition and gun powder
20. Which side won the Battle of New Orleans?
Americans
21. How did the relationship between the Creoles and Anglos change after the War of 1812?
Their relationship improved after they worked together to defend New Orleans
Chapter 9— Louisiana’s Antebellum Politics
22. When was America’s antebellum period?
Before the Civil War
23. What were the political views of the Democrats?
They favored smaller government, backed programs to help the common man and small
businesses, and favored universal manhood suffrage
24. What is franchise?
Right to vote
25. What was universal manhood suffrage?
Expanding voting beyond those with wealth or property
26. What were the political views of the Whigs?
They favored the interests of big businesses and banks over the rights of men, wanted government
support for internal improvements, and supported a sugar tariff.
27. What were the political views of the American Party?
They were hostile to immigrants and Catholics, known as the “Know Nothings”, they used force
and voter intimidation to control city politics because they were not a popular party.
28. By 1850, what two groups of immigrants made up half the population of New Orleans?
German and Irish
29. What were the head and master statutes?
Laws under which, when a woman married, her husband became her head and master, as her
father had been before the marriage.
30. What became one of the nation’s largest cities and ports?
New Orleans
31. What was New Orleans’s nickname?
Queen City of the South
32. What are factors? Why were planters dependent on them?
The financial representative of a plantation owner. Factors oversaw shipments, arranged
transportation for, and told planters when to sell their sugar and cotton. They often loaned the
planters money for supplies.
33. What was the preferred method of transportation? What invention helped?
Water routes; steamboat
34. What were the two main crops in Louisiana?
Sugar and cotton
35. What were the difficulties of growing sugar?
It required a longer and warmer growing season, so it was only grown in the bottom half of the
state. It was only grown profitably in a plantation setting because it required so much labor to
produce granulated sugar.
36. How many southern families owned slaves?
¼ of southern families owned slaves
37. What were the differences between being in a large and small holding?
If slaves were part of a large holding, their jobs were specialized. If they were part of a small
holding, they would be expected to do many jobs.
38. What was a coffle?
A large group of slaves who were marched overland from the Upper South to the Deep South, with
men chained together and women and children unchained but closely supervised.
39. Describe slave culture.
In the slave quarters, slaves met to cook, talk, sing, dance, and mourn. Generations passed their
stories down through oral history because it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Slave histories
came in the form of songs and stories.
40. What killed 12% of New Orleans population?
Yellow Fever
Chapter 10— Secession and Civil War
41. What were three political disputes that occurred before the Civil War?
Issues about slavery, emancipation, and states’ rights
42. What did the Missouri Compromise do?
It set a border between slave and free states. It was intended to provide a permanent line of
division, though the tensions still grew with each new state.
43. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
ensured the return of run-away slaves to their masters
44. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe; it created more sympathy for slaves and attracted more to the antislavery
cause in the North
45. What is sectionalism?
The thinking of northerners and southerners that their own part of the country was
fundamentally different from the other, based in large part on the issue of slavery
46. Who won the presidential election of 1860? How did the election results impact the nation?
Abraham Lincoln; many southern states felt cheated since Lincoln was not put on their ballot; this
action began the secession of states
47. Who was the governor of Louisiana during the election of 1860?
Thomas Overton Moore
48. When did Louisiana secede? What new nation did they join?
January 26, 1861; Confederate States of America
49. What event caused the North and South to declare war?
The attack at Fort Sumter
50. Describe Wheat’s Tigers.
One of the most famous units to come from Louisiana. Comprised of Irish and German immigrants,
the unit gained a reputation for their ferocity and rowdiness.
51. What was the Conscription Act?
An act first passed in the Civil War to set up a draft (compulsory enlistment for military service)
52. What is a blockade? Why did the North blockade the South?
isolating a seaport to prevent ships from leaving or entering; to prevent the South from receiving
supplies
53. Which Union Admiral led forces to take New Orleans?
Admiral David Farragut
54. Who was Benjamin Butler?
A Union General who took command of New Orleans after the North took over
55. What was General Order Number 28? Why was it created?
An order issued by Butler that demanded that the city’s women cease to “insult or show contempt”
to Union officers or soldiers. If they did not, Butler threatened punishment. It was created
because Confederate-loyal women were openly disrespectful to the Union soldiers.
56. What was the Confiscation Act? Which group was impacted the most by this act?
Allowed the Union army to take the property of anyone who continued to support the
Confederacy; this majorly impacted wealthy New Orleanians.
57. What is profiteering?
making an unfair profit on essential goods during emergency times
58. What was the Anaconda Plan? Describe the goal of the plan and how it was implemented.
A plan the Union created to win the Civil War. It called first for the U.S. Navy to prevent trade by
blocking the Confederate coastline. The second part of the plan was to seize control of the
Mississippi River. This would split the Confederacy, making it easier to conquer. It would also
give Northerners total control of the river.
59. What does siege mean?
when an army tries to capture a town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it
60. Where did Governor Moore move the state government to after the North took Baton Rouge?
Shreveport
61. Who became governor of Louisiana after Moore? What are two things he did to help Louisiana’s
citizens during the war?
Henry Watkins Allen; He established a trade channel with Mexico in order to gain food and
supplies, despite criticism. He also established state stores for fair-priced goods and paid benefits
for soldiers’ families.
62. What was life like for civilians in Louisiana during the war?
Many civilians were on the move as battle lines changed. Those who stayed in their houses were
subject to constant raiding from troops of both sides. Also, different things were used to replace
luxury items from before the war.
63. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Who issued it?
A proclamation issued by President Lincoln that did not end slavery but was designed to create
havoc by freeing slaves only in Confederate-occupied areas.
64. Which Confederate state was the last to surrender?
Louisiana
65. Describe the South at the end of the war.
The South’s infrastructure was ruined from the fighting and hundreds of thousands of people were
dead.