4th Nine Weeks Review: Honor
Part I: Reconstruction
1. Where was the capital of Louisiana during Reconstruction?
2. Name the three parts of the Ten Percent Plan.
3. What was Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
4. What were the key parts of the Military Reconstruction Act?
5. What were the key parts of the Constitution of 1868?
6. What was the Freedmen's bureau?
7. How did sharecropping hurt African Americans and the poor?
8. What was the name of local or state laws designed to keep blacks and whites segregated?
9. What is disenfranchise?
10. What was the name given to a Democrat who helped to end Reconstruction in the South and
believed their background, education, and success meant they should lead the government?
11. What is a literacy test?
12. What was the grandfather clause?
13. What was a poll tax?
14. Describe the Colfax Riot.
15. How did the Louisiana State Lottery work?
16. Describe the Mafia.
17. An organization of workers formed to improve wages and benefits.
18. The leasing of convicts from the state penitentiary for work outside the prison.
19. Name three areas that were associated with the arts during the New South.
20. How did logging affect Louisiana?
21. After Reconstruction, how did farmers improve farmland?
22. Explain the actions of Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court ruling.
Part II: 20th Century and Huey Long
23. What key event launched World War I?
24. What movement wanted to improve the quality of life for all Americans?
25. Which military base was created in Louisiana to train troops for World War I and then
dismantled shortly thereafter?
26. What was forbidding by law the making and selling of alcohol?
27. What amendment gave women the right to vote?
28. What was a tax on nonrenewable resources?
29. Describe Louisiana before Huey Long.
30. What was the great natural disaster that occurred in Louisiana in the 1920s?
31. Describe Huey Long's education.
32. What was Huey Long's first political office?
33. Who supported Huey Long?
34. What areas in Louisiana did Huey Long improve?
35. Who was against Huey Long?
36. What is a system of government in which government leaders, not citizens , control a country’s
wealth?
37. What is the name of a person who fought for voting rights for women?
38. What is the name of a person who has complete control of the government?
39. What is the name given where money is secretly returned to the government or to an official
like a bribe?
40. What is prolonged speechmaking used to delay legislative action?
41. What was the law that allowed citizens to pay taxes on only part of the value of their home?
42. Why was Huey Long impeached?
43. How was Huey Long found innocent of impeachment charges?
44. A document that pledged legislators to vote for acquittal for Huey Long no matter what
evidence.
45. What two political offices did Huey Long hold at the same time?
46. What was Huey Long famous for in Washington?
47. What was the Deduct Box?
48. Who became governor after Huey Long and was controlled by Long?
49. What was President Roosevelt's plan called to end the Great Depression?
50. What was Huey Long's program to end the Great Depression?
51. What was Long's slogan?
52. What was Huey Long's ultimate goal?
53. Why was Huey Long a target for the Ku Klux Klan?
54. Describe the relationship between Huey Long and Roosevelt?
55. How did Huey Long die?
56. Who assassinated Huey Long officially?
57. What is the name of the movement where social issues are so severe that they can only be
improved with government intervention?
Part III: World War II to the Present
58. Who was the man who became governor after Huey Long's death and who resigned the office
because of fraud?
59. During World War II, people were only allowed a limited amount of goods. This was called...
60. What was one item rationed?
61. What is sabotage?
62. What was a blackout?
63. Who was one of America's most famous World War II commanders who trained soldiers in
Louisiana?
64. Military training exercises in western LA during World War II.
65. A landing craft used in World War II to take soldiers and supplies to beaches.
66. Those rights that every individual has under the Constitution are called?
67. What established the separate but equal concept?
68. What ruled segregation was unconstitutional?
69. What was integration?
70. What was the purpose of busing?
71. What was the Voters Rights Act of 1865?
72. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1864?
73. Who was the first person to integrate schools in New Orleans?
74. Who tried to end Jim Crow Laws?
75. Who led a bus boycott in Baton Rouge to protest Jim Crow Laws?
76. Which group supported and helped elect Edwin Edwards?
77. How did the 1974 LA Constitution guarantee basic rights?
78. What is OPEC?
79. Why did a surplus of oil occur in the 1970s?
80. What forced the price of oil up in the 1980s?
81. What did the high price of oil cause in the 1980s?
82. How did the Oil Bust affect Louisiana?
83. Where were economic cuts in the 1980s?
84. Who was the only person to occupy the office of governor four times?
85. Why did the economy improve in the 1990s?
86. What is an Open Primary?