5 Written Questions

1. ___ immigrants were hired to dig canals because the work was considered too dangerous for expensive slaves.
2. The ___ are deltas formed as the Mississippi River switched its route to the Gulf.
3. ___ such as Avery Island, are found on the Chenier Plain.
4. French, expelled from Canada, moved to south Louisiana
5. ___ may be considered in physical and cultural (or human) terms.

5 Matching Questions

1. German
2. Red
3. consequences
4. Coastal Marsh
5. thalweg

1. a The ___ River is currently a tributary of the Mississippi River, but in the past has gone straight to the Gulf of Mexico.
2. b In south Louisiana, early ___ immigrants came directly from their homeland and settled on the "___ Coast" area of the Mississippi River to farm, later ___-American immigrants in southwest Louisiana had earlier settled in the Midwestern United States.
3. c The impacts of human inhabitants may be deliberate or accidental. Many human attempts at changing the landscape have unintended ___.
4. d A wetter cultural subregions of South Louisiana
5. e The line connecting the deepest part of the river is called a "___."

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. More ethnically French; more associated with the Roman Catholic branch of the Christian faith; historically more engaged in sugar cane farming.
   1. New Orleans
   2. North Louisiana
   3. Salt domes
   4. South Louisiana
2. After the 1927 flood the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers added ___ to the levee system.
   1. spillways
   2. billion
   3. Uplands
   4. Lowlands
3. German immigrants to New Orleans included Protestants, Catholics, and ___. Many were skilled tradesmen and entrepreneurs.
   1. Irish
   2. Jews
   3. Red
   4. lobes
4. The non-Acadian ___ were the first European settlers of south Louisiana. They came to trade for pelts with the Native Americans and grow sugar cane.
   1. Irish
   2. Red
   3. French
   4. Creole
5. The ___ were formed in the Holocene Epoch, at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers melted and sea levels rose.
   1. Uplands
   2. Lowlands
   3. lobes
   4. towhead

5 True/False Questions

1. Flood → ___ lakes are formed when clay plugs form and the river bypasses an old meander. The new course is called a neck cutoff.

   True        False

2. Italian → Early ___ immigrants in New Orleans often took on French versions of their last names. They had a mutual aid society in New Orleans by 1843. The largest wave of their immigration was from 1890 to 1910.

   True        False

3. April → ___ immigrants were hired to dig canals because the work was considered too dangerous for expensive slaves.

   True        False

4. towhead → The ___ River is currently a tributary of the Mississippi River, but in the past has gone straight to the Gulf of Mexico.

   True        False

5. African-American → Many in New Orleans, slave and free, worked on the docks and as laborers. Some were entrepreneurs and musicians.

   True        False