4th Nine Weeks Review: Regular
Part I: Reconstruction
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Name the three parts of the Ten Percent Plan.
What was Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
What were the key parts of the Military Reconstruction Act?
What were the key parts of the Constitution of 1868?
What was the name of local or state laws designed to keep blacks and whites segregated?
What is disenfranchise?
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?
8. What is a literacy test?
9. What was the grandfather clause?
10. What was a poll tax?
11. Describe the Colfax Riot.
12. How did the Louisiana State Lottery work?
13. Describe the Mafia.
14. An organization of workers formed to improve wages and benefits.
15. The leasing of convicts from the state penitentiary for work outside the prison.
16. Name three areas that were associated with the arts during the New South.
Part II: 20th Century and Huey Long
17. What key event launched World War I?
18. What movement wanted to improve the quality of life for all Americans?
19. Which military base was created in Louisiana to train troops for World War I and then
dismantled shortly thereafter?
20. What was forbidding by law the making and selling of alcohol?
21. What amendment gave women the right to vote?
22. What was a tax on nonrenewable resources?
23. What was the great natural disaster that occurred in Louisiana in the 1920s?
24. What was Huey Long's first political office?
25. Who supported Huey Long?
26. What areas in Louisiana did Huey Long improve?
27. Who was against Huey Long?
28. Why was Huey Long impeached?
29. How was Huey Long found innocent of impeachment charges?
30. What two political offices did Huey Long hold at the same time?
31. What was the Deduct Box?
32. Who became governor after Huey Long and was controlled by Long?
33. What was President Roosevelt's plan called to end the Great Depression?
34. What was Huey Long's program to end the Great Depression?
35. What was Huey Long's ultimate goal?
36. How did Huey Long die?
37. Who assassinated Huey Long officially?
38. 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
39. Who was the man who became governor after Huey Long's death and who resigned the office
because of fraud?
40. During World War II, people were only allowed a limited amount of goods. This was called...
41. What was one item rationed?
42. What is sabotage?
43. What was a blackout?
44. Who was one of America's most famous World War II commanders who trained soldiers in
Louisiana?
45. Those rights that every individual has under the Constitution are called?
46. What established the separate but equal concept?
47. What ruled segregation was unconstitutional?
48. What was integration?
49. What was the purpose of busing?
50. What was the Voters Rights Act of 1865?
51. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1864?
52. Which group supported and helped elect Edwin Edwards?
53. How did the 1974 LA Constitution guarantee basic rights?
54. What forced the price of oil up in the 1980s?
55. What did the high price of oil cause in the 1980s?
56. Where were economic cuts in the 1980s?
57. Who was the only person to occupy the office of governor four times?
58. Why did the economy improve in the 1990s?