GLE #77 -- Conflicts in Louisiana's History
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77. Describe major conflicts in context of Louisiana history (e.g., Rebellion of 1768, the French and Indian War) (H-1D-M3)
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CMM Social Studies Teachers, GT Louisiana History., Mr. Blankenship's Study Group, Mr. Blankenship's Louisiana History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 White Apple | French confiscation of Natchez lands and the town of ___ led to violent retaliation. |
| Natchez | The war fought from 1729-1731. |
| Bienville | The French governor during the Chickasaw War. |
| French and Indian | The war fought from 1754 to 1763. |
| Paris | Louisiana was ceded from France to Spain to avoid losing it to Great Britain through the Treaty of ___ in 1763. |
| mercantilist | The French merchants dislike the new Spanish governor, Ulloa. His policies enforcing ___ law disrupted existing (though illegal) trade. |
| Cabildo | The French Superior Council was replaced by a Spanish ___. |
| American Revolution | The war fought from 1775 to 1783. |
| Appalachian | The Treaty of Paris of 1763 limited expansion of British colonists beyond the ___ Mountains. |
| Galvez | Governor ___ aided the American colonists during the Revolution, sending supplies and attacking the British in Florida. |
| Pollock | ___, a New Orleans merchant, helped supply the American revolutionaries. |
| bourgeoisie | The French ___ (middle class) resented the misrule of the old aristocracy. |
| philosophes | The ___ (intellectuals) in France advocated for change and reform. |
| Louis XVI | The French King ___'s support of the American Revolution had bankrupted France. |
| Napoleon | ___ rose to power in the chaos of the French Revolution. |
| San Ildefonso | Napoleon forced the return of Louisiana from the Spanish in the Treaty of ___ in 1800 and sold it to the United States in 1803. |
| impressment | The British ___ (capture and forced servitude) of American sailors and the American goal of conquering Canada to expel Britain from North America were causes of the War of 1812. |
| Ghent | The Treaty of ___ ended the War of 1812. |
| Jackson | The British invaded Louisiana in the War of 1812 but were soundly beaten by General ___ with help from local allies such as Jean Lafitte. |
| Mexican-American | The ___ War was fought from 1846 to 1848. |
| Whig | The ___ Party had opposed the popular Mexican-American War and support for them declined. |
| Civil War | The war fought from 1861 to 1865. |
| secede | The CSA believed they had the right to leave (___) from the USA. |
| abolitionists | Northern ___ objected to slavery in the South. |
| tariffs | Southern planters resented protectionist ___ that favored northern industry over southern agriculture. |
| Yellow | "___" journalists in the United States exaggerated claims of Spanish atrocities in Cuba before the Spanish-American War. |
| Maine | The U. S. S. ___ exploded in Havana's harbor. The United States blamed Spain for the explosion. |
| Spanish American | The war fought in 1898. |
| WWI | The war fought from 1914 to 1918 (abbreviation). |
| Central Powers | In World War I Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and others were the... |
| Allies | In World War I Great Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States were the... |
| secret treaties | The assassination of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by a Serbian terrorist triggered a series of ___. |
| cotton | WWI caused an increased demand for ___ that brought temporary prosperity to some. |
| WWII | The war fought from 1939 to 1945 (abbreviation). |
| Axis Powers | In World War II Germany, Japan, and Italy were the... |
| Allies | During WWII Great Britain, France, and later the Soviet Union and the United States were the... |
| Hyperinflation | ___ in post-WWI Germany created a sense of desperation. |
| propaganda | Adolf Hitler used ___ to get elected and then ended democracy in Germany. |
| Poland | Hitler's invasion of ___ led to war with France and Britain. |
| Soviet Union | Hitler erred by attacking the ___ in June 1941 because he could not sustain a war on two fronts. |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese attack on ___ brought the United States into WWII in December 1941. |
| training | Massive ___ maneuvers were held in Louisiana just before WWII. Many Louisianians fought in WWII. |
| Cold War | The conflict that lasted from 1945 to 1991. |
| Cuban | The periods of greatest tension during the Cold War were from 1948 to 1953 and the ___ Missile Crisis of October 1962 |
| Soviets | The ___ worked to expand communism while the Americans sought to contain communism and maintain democratic capitalism. |
| Korean War | The war that lasted from 1950 to 1953. |
| Kim Il-sung | North Korean dictator ___ convinced Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to support and equip an invasion of South Korea to expand communism. |
| Vietnam War | The war that was fought from 1954 to 1975. |
| France | Vietnamese nationalists fought for independence from ___. |
| Vietnamese | Many ___ escaped communism and immigrated to Louisiana. |
| Gulf | The __ War started when Iraq invaded Kuwait and the United States led an alliance to expel the Iraqis and reinstate the government of Kuwait. |
| Afghanistan | The United States struck the Taliban in ___ for harboring Al-Qaeda. |
| Iraq | The U.S. attacked ___ in the belief that dictator Saddam Hussein might be developing weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMDs) for use by terrorists. |
| War on Terror | The war that started in 2001 is the ___. |
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