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Mr. E’s Monday, March. 9, 2009
Louisiana History Class
Past S.S. LEAP Questions
3/9/09
List the three branches of the
United States government and
the two parts to one of them.
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Vocabulary:
Fact # 1
Abraham Lincoln – Elected to the U.S.
Presidency in 1860.
Jefferson Davis – Elected to the C.S.
Presidency in 1861.
P.G.T. Beauregard – Confederate general
who ordered the firing of the first shots of
the civil war.
Benjamin Butler – The Union general that
would control New Orleans during war.
Vocabulary
The road to war – After
years of struggle the southern
states believed in the doctrine
of state’s rights. They felt
that they could block or
overturn actions of the federal
government and even believed
they could leave the Union.
The war turned out to be more
about “state’s rights” than slavery
Fact # 1
Fact # 2
Abraham Lincoln – The
election of 1860 and the
issue of slavery caused a
split of the Democratic party.
Southern Democrats were in
favor of slavery and
Northerners thought “it was
wrong and should be
restricted”.
The split left the
Republicans winners.
Fact #2
Louisiana seceded – In
January 1861, Louisiana
voted 113 to 17 to leave the
Union. Louisiana called itself
a country for about two
months before joining the
Confederate Sates of
America.
It even raised it’s own flag –
and became “The Independent
Republic of Louisiana”.
Fact #3
Fact # 4
Fact #4
Jefferson Davis - Was a
West Point graduate, and as a
senator he argued against
secession but believed each
state was sovereign and had
an unquestionable right to
secede from the Union. He was
elected to a six-year term. During
his presidency, Davis was not
able to find a strategy to defeat
the larger, more industrially
developed Union.
Fact # 3
P.G.T. Beauregard -
Beauregard's first assignment
from the Confederate
Government was the
command of Charleston,
where on April 12, 1861 he
opened fire on the Union held
Fort Sumpter, regarded as the
start of the American Civil
War.
He is also credited with creating
the Confederate battle flag.
Fact #5
Short War – The
southerners thought the war
would be short and that
“they’d teach those Yankees
a lesson and settle matters in
60 days!” Louisiana sent
5,000 troops to defend the
south. Once the war began
and turned ugly fewer men
wanted to enlist (volunteer) and
the state had to start a draft or
conscription.
Fact #6
Civil War Timeline
• Using the underlined dates over the next
three days
• Create a timeline as we did in the past
• Timeline will cover Jan. 1861 to May 1865
• Dates over these three days will NOT be
given in order.
• Assignment will be due Friday at the
beginning of class.
• NEATNESS COUNTS – IN BLACK INK
Assignment
Tue (10): Ch. 10, Civil War
Wed (11): Ch. 10, Civil War
Thurs (12): Ch. 10, Civil War
Fri (13): Ch. 11, Post CW
Mon (16): Ch. 11, Post CW
Tue (17): Ch. 11, Post CW
Wed (18): Ch. 12, Populist
Wed (19): Ch. 12, Populist
Upcoming