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39 Cards in this Set
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- Back
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Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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Slave Code
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1806
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Slave Revolt
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1811
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LA Statehood
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1812
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Battle of New Orleans
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1815
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Jackson becomes President
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1828
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Lasalle discovers LA
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1682
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Natchez attack
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1729
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Seven Years War
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1754
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Peace of Paris
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1763
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Fugitive Slave Act
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1850 (Compromise of 1850 too)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin published
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1852
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Dred Scott decision
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1857
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Lincoln becomes president
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1860
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LA secedes from Union
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1861
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Emancipation Proclamation
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1863
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13th Amendment
(abolished slavery) |
1865
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14th Amendement
(Due process and equal protection) |
1868
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15th Amendment
(Voting Rights) |
1870
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Colfax Massacre
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1873
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896
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Jim Crow Laws
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1898
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Calvin Coolidge becomes president
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1924
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Great Flood in New Orleans
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1927
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Herbert Hoover becomes president
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1928
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Share Our Wealth Programs start
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1934
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Scandals
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1939
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Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
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1953
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Brown v. Board of Education
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1954
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New Orleans School Desegregation Crisis
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1960
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President Johnson's speech in New Orleans
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1964
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Open Primary Law
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1973
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New Constitution effective
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1975
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Race from hell
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1991
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Katrina/Rita
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Aug/Sept of 2005
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Earl Long, 2 terms
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1948-1952
1956-1960 |
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Huey Long, 1 term
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1928-1932
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Edwin Edwards, 2 terms, 1, 1
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1972-1980
1984-1988 1992-1996 |
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Jimmie Davis, 2 terms
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1944-1948
1960-1964 |
