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LOUISIANA HISTORY FINAL EXAM REVIEW GUIDE
Mrs. Prado’s Class
Due on Monday May 9th
(No late study guides will be accepted.)
This guide should be used to help you prepare for the exam. The exam has multiple choice, using map to
answer questions, using charts / graphs, and constructive responses. Know the definition of the terms
given on the study guide.
Completion of the study guide is required. Questions must be answered on a separate
piece of paper. A participation grade will be given for completion of study guide.
Louisiana’s Early American Era – Chapter 8 (pages 32 - 43 of Interactive Notebook)
1. Terms of the Treaty of San Ildefonso
2. How much was the Louisiana Purchase? Why was it important to the US?
3. Who was the first governor of the Territory of Orleans? (He was also the first governor of the state of LA.)
4. Creoles
5. How did the US get West Florida?
6. Who was allowed to vote under Louisiana’s first constitution?
7. What is another name of the War of 1812? Who was president during war?
8. Why did the War of 1812 begin?
9. What important American city was burned by the British?
10. What famous song was written during the War of 1812? Who wrote the song?
11. What treaty ended the War of 1812? What are the terms of the treaty?
12. Who was the American general at the Battle of New Orleans?
13. Where was the Battle of New Orleans fought?
14. Why was the Battle of New Orleans unnecessary?
15. Vocabulary from worksheet: privateer, annex, diplomat, blockade
Louisiana’s Antebellum Era - (pages 44 - 55 of Interactive Notebook)
1. What does antebellum mean? What period does it refer to in the South?
2. How designed the steamboat?
3. What was the most important crop in the South during the Antebellum Era?
4. Who invented the cotton gin?
5. What percentage of people in Louisiana owned slaves?
Louisiana’s Civil War Era– Chapter 10 (pages 56 - 71 of Interactive Notebook)
1. Missouri Compromise - What happened to slavery north of 36 degrees 30 minutes?
2. Parts of the Compromise of 1850
3. abolitionists
4. Who are Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
5. What was unique about the Election of 1860?
6. What was the first state to secede from the Union?
7. The southern states form the ______________________ with ___________________ as president.
8. Where was the capital of the Confederacy?
9. What are the goals of each side at the start of the Civil War?
10. Who sailed up Mississippi River to capture New Orleans?
11. What happened the New Orleans during the Civil War?
13. Who was Benjamin Butler?
14. What two bayous in Louisiana for supplies?
15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
16. How did the Union’s goal change after the Proclamation was issued?
17. What was the Anaconda Plan?
18. What is total war?
19. Where did Lee surrender?
20. What is the main result of the Civil War?
Louisiana’s Reconstruction Era - Chapter 11 (pages 72 – 85 of Interactive Notebook)
1. Define - reconstruction
2. What did the Radical Republicans want during Reconstruction?
3. Who assassinated Lincoln?
4. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Black Codes, Freedmen's Bureau
5. How many military districts were set up in the South during Military Reconstruction?
6. PBS Pinchback , sharecropping
7. What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?
8. What were Jim Crow laws?
9. What is the NAACP? What does it fight for?
10. What ruling was made in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
11. What earlier Supreme Court decision did Brown reserve?
12. Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act
Transition to 20th Century – Chapter 13 (Pages 86 – end of Interactive Notebook)
1. What movement influenced Long’s life?
2. What was Long’s first elected position?
3. What was the Railroad Commission renamed?
4. What corporation did Long start a life long battle with?
5. List three things Long did the help the people while he was governor.
6. What is impeachment? Was Long removed from office?
7. What was Long’s nickname?
8. Explain Long’s Share the Wealth Program.
9. Who assassinated Long?
10. Why was Hurricane Katrina so devastating?
11. What is TOPS?
12. What are the effects of the Gulf oil spill?