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Most ______ were Drawn to the Whig Party because of their support of businesses and the Sugar tariff.
a) Cotton Planters
b) Creoles
c) Americans
d) Sugar Cane Planters

A tax on imported sugar that would make Louisiana locally grown sugar more competitive
a) Sugar Tariff
b) Cotton Tax
c) Sugar Growing Tax
d) Stamp Tax

The American Party, called the “___________,” emerged in Louisiana as a party hostile to new immigrants.
a) Democrat Party
b) Know Nothings
c) Republican Party
d) French Party

The know nothings believed Democrats exploited ___________, particularly working-class Germans and Irish, in order to expand their voting base
a) Foreign visitors
b) Americans
c) Immigrants
d) children

Because most of the Irish who immigrated to the United States in the antebellum period were Catholic, members of the American Party were also known to be _______ _________ Party
a) Pro Catholic
b) Pro Baptist
c) Anti Catholic
d) Anti Christian

Under these laws, when a woman married, her husband became her head and master, as her father had been before the marriage.
a) Head and master statutes
b) Magnolia Statues
c) Women Statues
d) Slave and Master Statues

The Louisiana Governor that is viewed as one of the most effective Antebellum Governors, he improved roads and levees and supported the first railroads in Louisiana
a) Edward Douglass White
b) Pierre Deignty
c) Andre Bienvenu Roman
d) Zebulon Pike

Competing neighborhoods and ethnic identities divided New Orleans into ____ separate run Municipalities.
a) 1
b) 3
c) 4
d) 2

Followers of Jackson became known as
a) Republicans
b) Jacksonian Democrats
c) Cajuns
d) Republican - Democrats

Which is not something favored by Democratic followers of Jackson
a) Limited voting rights
b) Universal manhood sufferage
c) Smaller Government
d) Programs designed to help the common man

The expansion of voting rights to include the masses of white American men under Jackson is known as
a) Manumission
b) Reconstruction
c) Conscription
d) Universal manhood sufferage

Northern Louisiana residents viewed New Orleans as
a) The Creole Capital
b) The Capital of America
c) Its own Country
d) a Foreign Nation

Rural Louisianan wanted the Capital of Louisiana moved out of New Orleans. The succeeded the first time in moving it to
a) Shreveport
b) Monroe
c) Baton Rouge
d) Donaldsonville

The final effor to move the capital out of new Orleans succeeded in moving the capitol to
a) Baton Rouge
b) Shreveport
c) Monroe
d) Raceland

The two competing ethnic groups for political power in La through out the Antebellum Period in Louisiana were
a) French and Spanish
b) Americans and Spanish
c) Creoles and Americans
d) French and British

French speaking immigrants who came to America from France were known as
a) French Regulars
b) Foreign French
c) Foreign Malaises
d) French Grants

The years of the Antebellum period
a) 1820-1860
b) 1920 - 1940
c) 1600 -1629
d) 1812 - 1847

Term that refers to a time before the Civil War
a) Epoch
b) Antebellum
c) Era
d) Reconstruction

The two terms of the presidency of Andrew Jackson 1829-1are called by Historians What?837
a) The Jacksonian Era
b) Reconstruction
c) The Age of Jackson
d) The Jacksonian Democracy Era

n. If a woman failed to make a separate property agreement beforehand, all of the property she brought to the marriage became community property, and a husband could dispose of it without his wife’s ________ or ____________.
a) Legal Rights or Disagreement
b) Knowledge or legal order against it
c) only with her Knowledge and consent
d) Knowledge or Permission

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