Louisiana History Chapter 9

Front 1

During the panic of 1837, Louisiana banks were weaker than those i the north.

Back 1

False

Front 2

A large number of Creoles came to Louisiana after the revoloution in Haiti.

Back 2

True

Front 3

In the antebellum period, the only United States port larger than New Orleans was Philadelphia.

Back 3

False

Front 4

Many Germans who moved to Louisiana were Catholic.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Wealthly Louisiana planters favored the Democrat Party, which advocated protecting sugar planters from lower sugar prices in the West Indies.

Back 5

False

Front 6

Which Louisiana governor moved the state capital to Donaldsonville?

Back 6

Henry Johnson

Front 7

What musical instrument was NOT permitted on the plantations?

Back 7

Drum

Front 8

In the antebellumperiod, which section of Louisiana believed that state government was neglecting its interests?

Back 8

North

Front 9

Which vegetable came from Africa?

Back 9

Okra

Front 10

Which statement describes one belief of the Jacksonian democracy?

Back 10

Suffrage should be extended.

Front 11

Why did the Know-Nothing Party(American Party) oppose immigration?

Back 11

Its members blamed the immigrants for the unemployment of American workers.

Front 12

What event caused the Mexican-American War to break out?

Back 12

U.S. troops in the Rio Grande area.

Front 13

_______ ______-_____ ______ ___ was a former African slave who became a wealthy free woman.

Back 13

Madame
Marie
Justice
Cirnaire
Couvent

Front 14

___ ______ was sent to Mexico to try to buy California before the Mexican War.

Back 14

John
Slidell

Front 15

The first American Governor of louisiana was _______ __ _______.

Back 15

William
C.C.
Claiborne

Front 16

________ _____ was a term used to describe the theory that one day the U.S. would spread to the Pacific Ocean.

Back 16

Manifest
Destiny

Front 17

An economic depression, called the ____ __ _________, showed that the Louisiana state constitution needed economic and banking controls.

Back 17

Panic
of
1837

Front 18

_____ were manmade waterways that connected Louisiana's rivers and bayous.

Back 18

Canals

Front 19

A commercial agent who represented planters in the sale of their crops was known as a ____.

Back 19

factor

Front 20

The first road-improvement bill in Louisiana funded a road from __________ through Washington Parish to Missippi.

Back 20

Covington

Front 21

_______ ______ invented a vacuum pan evaporator to refine sugar.

Back 21

Norbert Rillieux

Front 22

Planter often hired ______ to supervise the work of slaves.

Back 22

overseers

Front 23

roads, bridges, and canals

Back 23

Internal Improvements

Front 24

the right to vote

Back 24

Suffrage

Front 25

private teacher

Back 25

tutor

Front 26

a commercial agent

Back 26

Factor

Front 27

the period before the Civil War

Back 27

Antebellum

Front 28

The Creoles and the Americans struggled to gain and maintain political power in antebellum Louisiana. Describe some of the conflicts between two groups.

Back 28

Both factors sought to control the governor's office. There was apparently a plan to alternate the governorship between the Creoles and the Americans. American legislators did not want to meet in New Orleans, center of Creole power. Americans tried to move the capital to West Florida, the American Stronghold. Creoles used French and Americans used English to insult one another.