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Honors Study Guide
2nd Nine Weeks
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I. Spanish Period
1. Put the following events in order: Louisiana as a proprietorship, becoming a Spanish colony,
becoming a French royal colony, and claiming France?
2. Who was the first Spanish governor of Louisiana?
3. Why were the merchants angry with Ulloa?
4. What event took place while Ulloa was governor of LA?
5. Who was sent to put down the Creole Revolution?
6. What took the place of the French Superior Council?
7. How did O'Reilly impact Louisiana?
8. Who was the Spanish governor during the American Revolution clearing the British away from
the Miss. River and Gulf Coast?
9. How did Louisiana help in the American Revolution?
10. Who was the Spanish governor that had to rebuild New Orleans after it was destroyed by fire?
11. What is the Right of Deposit?
12. Who was the Spanish governor during the French Revolution and gave the Americans the
Right of Deposit?
13. Who perfected a new granulating sugar process making sugarcane a popular crop in LA?
14. Where did the Islenos come from?
15. Why were the Acadians exiled?
16. Why did Acadian settlements spread west of New Orleans?
17. Where did the Acadians settle?
18. When did the Acadians and their culture come to Louisiana?
19. What happened to the king and queen of France during the French Rev.?
20. Why were laws passed to ban speaking French and other languages in school?
21. Which "Americanization" law had the least effect on the Cajuns?
II. Louisiana Purchase and Statehood
22. Why did the United States want to purchase territory in Louisiana from France?
23. What role did Thomas Jefferson play in the history of Louisiana?
24. What historical event led to the purchase of most of Louisiana except the Florida Parishes?
25. Why did Napoleon decide to sell Louisiana?
26. What role did William C. C. Claiborne play in the development of Louisiana?
27. How did William C.C. Claiborne affect Louisiana history?
28. Why was the Sabine Strip called "no-man's land"?
29. How did the location of New Orleans help the British?
30. Why was the Battle of New Orleans considered unnecessary?
31. Who led the Americans in the Battle of New Orleans?
32. How did Louisiana's early state government in the Const. of 1812 differ from the state gov. of
today?
33. Which cultures influenced Louisiana's culture from 1800-1819?
34. Why is the St. John the Baptist Slave Rebellion important?
35. Who won the War of 1812?
Antebellum and The Civil War
36. What was the main impact of the Triangle Trade on West Africans?
37. During the 19th Century, why did Louisiana become more interdependent?
38. During the Antebellum and Civil War Period, what did Louisiana focus on?
39. Why did Louisiana depend on food imported from other states and countries?
40. Why did cotton become so profitable in the 19th Century?
41. What resource in Louisiana encouraged economic growth during the Antebellum period?
42. In a plantation economy, what are resources used for?
43. What was a boat that could be steered but took long amounts of time to make a trip upriver?
44. What disease was caused by mosquitoes?
45. What invention allowed trade on the river in both directions?
46. How did Henry Miller Shreve aid Louisiana's development?
47. What three things led to Louisiana's economic growth during the Antebellum period?
48. Which Civil War cause allowed states to vote on slavery?
49. Which Civil War cause stated that slavery was banned above the 36 degree latitude mark?
50. Which Civil War cause dealt with a slave who sued for his freedom but lost?
51. Who were William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglas?
52. Which act required all states to return runaways or be fined?
53. How did the Civil War begin?
54. Who won the Election of 1860?
55. Why did most Louisianians want to secede?
56. What country did Louisiana join?
Civil War
57. What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?
58. How was New Orleans defended?
59. What did the Confederates do to the warehouses in New Orleans? Why?
60. What was the purpose of Grant's Canal?
61. Why did Port Hudson surrender?
62. What were the goals of the Red River Campaign?
63. Why was the Red River Campaign a failure?
64. What were a series of wing dams that rescued the stranded ships?
65. Where did the longest siege of the final Union campaign in LA occur?
66. What was one of the last Confederate victories that saved Shreveport?
67. What Union general was placed in charge of occupied New Orleans?
68. What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
69. What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
70. What was the single greatest act of destruction of the Civil War in Louisiana?
71. What was one success of General Butler?
72. How did the Civil War affect LA's cotton industry?
73. Why did the Confederates and the Union want to control Louisiana?
74. Where were most of the Civil War battles?
75. Which economic reason best explains Union and Confederate strategies in LA during the Civil
War?
Constructed Response: Be able to answer the following:
1. In 1803, the United States purchased 600 million acres of land from France as part of the
Louisiana Purchase.
Part A: Explain how this purchase benefited the United States government and American Merchants.
Part B: Explain how this purchase benefited Napoleon Bonaparte.
Describe one conflict Claiborne had to deal with in Louisiana and one way Claiborne helped
Louisiana.
2.
3. RACE Paragraph on Statehood.