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- What was the name Confederates called draft dodgers
- Jayhawkers
- What factor had a major effect on Reconstruction
- Abraham Lincoln's death
- What group formed the Knights of the White Camellia
- former Confederates called Redeemers
- separate but equal
- a concept from the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson that permited states to pass laws that made it legal to have s-b-e facilities
- Bounty
- a one-time reward for enlisting
- Unionist
- a person who supported the Union during the entire Civil War period
- Severance Tax
- resources taken from land such as oil and gas
- The surrender that ended the Civil War was signed where
- Appomattox Court House
- What event immediately preceded the Great Depression
- The stock market crash.
- Censor
- to remove or suppress
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- worked to stop the sale of alcohol
- What constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote
- 19th Amendment
- Reconstructionist
- steps taken to restore the southern states to the Union and to rebuild the South after the Civil War
- Secession
- The withdrawal of a state from the Union
- Which New Deal agency was responsible for building forest trails, roads, planting trees, and improving national parks
- Civilians Conservations Courts (CCC)
- Great Depression
- began in 1929 when the stock market crashed and ended in the 1940s
- Why were sharecroppers almost always in debt
- merchants charged high prices and sharecroppers rarely made enough to pay off their debt
- Ratify
- to approve or make valid
- Who was the Commander of all the Confederate forces who surrendered at Appomattox Court House
- Robert E. Lee
- In Louisiana, who received the greatest number of popular votes in the election of 1860
- John C. Breckinridge
- Radical
- one who holds extremist's views or wants drastic change
- Fraud
- deliberate deception for unfair or unlawful gain
- Who was President of the United States at the time of the 1927 flood
- Calvin Coolidge
- during WWI, where in La. was a large military camp established
- Pineville
- progressive movement
- a series of movements whose members believed that the gov't was best equiped to fix the ills of society
- What effect did the Civil War have on the state of Louisiana
- it left Louisiana heavily damaged many men killed or wounded and buildings were burned
- Propaganda
- Info that is spread for the purpose of promoting same cause
- Carpetbaggers
- a term applied to a white who moved south to help carry out Congress' reconstruction plan
- Abolitionists
- persons would opposed slavery
- What U.S. Supreme Court case established the s-b-e concept
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- What were black farm workers who moved to Kansas after reconstruction
- exodusters
- workers' compensation
- gov't insurance program for those killed or injured on the job
- What system provided cheap labor in La.
- convict lease system
- Who did the free men of color support at the beginning of the Civil War? Union or Confederacy?
- Confederacy
- What group started the first colleges for African American
- Northern Misionary groups
- What were two popular kinds of entertainment during the last years of Reconstruction
- baseball --- steamboat races
- Anarchy
- an absence of government
- What was the site of Louisiana's first radio broadcast
- Loyola University
- What law promoted the concept of popular sovereignty
- Missouri Compromise
- What were the programs suppported by Huey Long when he was governor
- eliminated poll tax, homestead exemption, and paved roads
- Why was the Freedmen's Bureau formed
- to help former slaves
- Why did General Benjamin Butler close a number of churches in New Orleans
- They only prayed for Jefferson Davis not Abraham Lincoln
- How did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin help the cause of the Abolitionists
- It depicted slave owners as cruel and cold-hearted
- White League
- organization established by redeemer Democrats to restore power to the pre-war white Democrats
- Who was Louisiana's governor when the state seceded from the Union
- Thomas Moore
- What was another term for military Reconstruction
- Radical Reconstruction
- Sharecropping
- an agricultural system developed in South where planters supplied land and tools and cabins and workers worked all year in return for a share of the profit
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Established in 1865 to provide (1) food (2) shelter (3) education (4) health care, and (5) employment for former slaves
- Prohibition
- Forbidding by law the making and selling of alcohol
- Who was called "the brains of the Confederacy"
- Judah P. Benjamin
- Who was the Union General who took command of New Orleans after its capture
- General Benjamin Butler
- What political party was formed because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Republican
- Compromise of 1850
- (1) part of Texas was given to New Mexico (2) fugitive slave law was strengthened (3) decision on whether slavery would be allowed in New Mexico and Utah would be up to the residents of that area
- strike
- workers refused to work until demands were met
- Where did the longest seige of the Civil War take place
- Port Hudson
- Public Service Commission
- state commission whose job it was to regulate transportation and communication companies
- Ku Klux Klan
- secret racist organization that used violence and intimidation against minorities whose behavior or actions they did not like
- What kind of economy did the former Confederates want
- a plantation economy
- Freedmen
- a former slave
- Enlist
- to volunteer to join the army
- Scalawag
- a term applied to a native white southerner who supported the Republican party during Reconstruction
- Impeachment
- the process of bringing charges or wrongdoing against public officials still in office
- Why did La. establish the convict lease system
- to earn money
- What New Deal agency was created to ensure banks would be less likely to fail in the future
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Define states' rights
- the belief that states could block or overrule the actions of the federal government
- Confederate States of America
- the name of the government formed by the Southern states when they seceeded from the Union
- Conscription
- a draft
- Jim Crow Laws
- restricted the freedom of A.A. & required s-b-e facilities
- Black Code
- a series of laws passed that restricted the freed men's actions, movements, and conduct
- Knights of the White Camellia
- a secret organization that operated in Louisiana during military reconstruction and used threats of physical violence to keep freedmen from voting or forced them to vote Democrat
- Crevasse
- a break in the levee
- What type of music is associated with Louis Armstrong
- Jazz
- What was the purpose of the Union's "scorched Earth policy"
- To leave nothing for the confederates to use to make war
- Missouri Compromise
- 1820 -- Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state
- What happened to Louisiana's cotton crop during the Great Depression
- the price of cotton fell dramatically
- Why did Franklin Roosevelt close banks when he became president
- He closed all banks until a federal examiner could prove the bank was sound enough to survive.
- Share Our Wealth Program
- Huey Long's program; would have eliminated poverty by giving every family a minimum income and providing old age pension
- The commander of the United States Navy at New Orleans was who
- David Farraguat